3 1/2 year old Isaac loves words, especially big words. His love affair started with a Charlie Brown book that contained the word "acetylcholinesterase." My mother than introduced him to the perennial favorite - "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from "Mary Poppins." His latest hobby is to sit down with the dictionary and pick out big words and have me write them down on a piece of paper for him. Then, he will take these same words and use his letter magnets on the refrigerator to spell them out, or he will have me spell them out on the floor using lincoln logs or change from his piggy bank. These words go across our entire living room.
Well, yesterday he decided he was going to move on to a paragraph in a "how-to" manual he was looking at and he went to the refrigerator to attempt to spell that. Unfortunately, he didn't have enough magnets. So, this morning at computer time, I told him he could type out his paragraph. And sure enough, he did. He looked up letter after letter and typed it in. Ofcoursehewriteslikethis with no spacing, but still, I told Bernie if they still had manual typesetters, I could get that boy a job!
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