Jonah's latest hobby has been spelling words. For Christmas, Santa brought him a set of colorful alphabet magnets for the fridge. So while I'm cooking he asks to spell his favorite words, which started with "Jonah", "Daddy" and "Mommy", but soon moved on to "Airplane" and "Helicopter". Jonah will carefully pick out each letter and place it in a neat row as I help spell each word. He can even do his own name by himself! Left to his own devices, mine gets a more creative spelling: "Mmommyy". We once spelled "Truck", but he was disappointed and wanted it bigger. I think it wasn't long enough for him! Maybe next time we'll try excavator.
Jonah is also getting pretty good at using the computer keyboard to spell words. His favorites to type include "Elmo" and "Big Bird", though they rarely appear on the fridge. Here's the latest email we sent to Daddy (with deletion help from Mommy when the letters repeated for several pages):
daddy,
helicopter
airplane
jonah
