“M” is for…Uncle Brad!

A few weeks ago, I had the brilliant-mama “let’s combine fun with learning” idea to make Jay an ABC book in one of those little 4x6 photo albums.  A few times a week, we do a new letter-page in the “CB-Book” as Jay calls it. On each page, I write one letter and then draw a few little pictures of things that start with the featured letter. Jay loves watching and helping me draw pictures. I love drawing cartoons, teaching Jay, and watching him learn all at once. It’s great!

I’m surprised and impressed with how much Jay is actually learning from our little ABC book sessions. We sit on the floor and use that handy diaper box as a table while we draw pictures for the book. When Jay wants to do a page in his CB book, he pulls out the box, sets the book on it, and tries to get out the crayons (I keep them out of reach to save our walls, furniture, Rose, etc.)

Here are a few of Jay’s favorite pages:

Before we start a new page, we review alllllll of the other pages first. Today we did “N.”

When we reached “M” in our review today, I said “M is for…” and pointed to the pictures on the page. Here’s what happened:

I drew a picture of a muscly man for “M,” and I explained what muscles were to Jay like this: “Muscles like Uncle Brad and Kyle.” Uncle Brad is what stuck in Jay’s brain…

…even though Kyle is the one who did “triple-neph-ups!”

There’s nothing like a buff uncle to teach a little boy the ABC’s.