Here’s a picture of the word search Adam did during rest time on Wednesday. I helped him find the word “hen”, handed him a colored pencil, and then left to try to convince Maggie and Luke that naps are good. I felt bad because I didn’t think I explained it that well and I thought it would be too hard for him.

I vastly underestimated my son. He found almost all of the remaining words. It’s a toss up as to whether he found “jake” and forgot to circle it, or crossed it off and forgot to find it. Either way, Adam’s obviously brilliant (you read it on the internet, it must be true). I love how he drew a line through the letters and then circled the word. He said he just picked a word to find and looked for the first letter. Then he tried to see if the other letters were around it. Totally a genius. Especially since my instructions were basically, “Here is a list of words to find. They are hiding in with a bunch of other letters. See? Here’s the word hen.”

I would also like to point out how adult female turkeys kind of get the short end of the stick when it comes to names. I mean if we were a family of turkeys, Dave would be a tom, Maggie would be a jenny, Adam and Luke would both be jakes (probably jake 1 and jake 2, just to alleviate confusion), and I would be a hen.

That’s totally unfair.

If I was a turkey I would want to be known as a gwendolyn or a cordelia or something cooler than a hen.

I’m just going to pretend it’s short for henrietta.

Take that science.

Also, not capitalizing those names sort of hurt my brain. I know it was the proper way to write them when considering that, in this context, they are not proper nouns, but it still bothered me.

Take that english (uncapitalized on purpose).

Also, according to my spellcheck, uncapitalized is not a word.

Neither is spellcheck actually.