Adam: I want to lay down and watch baseball with you Daddy.

Dave: This is football buddy.

Adam: Okay, but we can still call it baseball.

So yes, bedtime is on hold while Daddy bonds with his boys watching some football.

We finished up the Letter L, and now it’s on to the Letter T for this week. I learned a lot last week about what does and doesn’t work for Adam (both in terms of his abilities and his attention span).

Last Friday I got out some dot markers (think bingo daubers for kids) and let him test them out. He picked the green one of course (“to why green is my favorite color mama”). After he got the feel of actually using the dot markers, we worked on counting with them.

I had printed out some pictures of spot-less ladybugs and let him decide how many spots each one should have (I did veto his suggestion of 100 though). Once he told me the numbers I wrote them below each ladybug and then it was up to him to make the correct number of spots with the dot markers.

Once properly spotted, he had me add legs to the ladybugs. Apparently, the lack of appendages really bothered him. When I first showed him the printouts and asked him what the ladybugs were missing (expecting him to say “spots”), he told me feet and arms. Once that was taken care of, he got out the crayons to color them. He is big in to the rainbow order lately and will sing the order of the colors as he is drawing (“red, orn-ange, lellow, green, blue, in-a-go, and violet too!”).

Luke has been a busy kid lately too. Last week helped me load the dishwasher. Unfortunately I didn’t see his contribution until the dishes (and his jar of food) had been cleaned.