Words

G and I are looking at something on the computer in the study and we can hear the children in their room which is across the hall. It is dark - 8pm. Bax is teaching Iz new words: FLOWER. he says. sounding it out FLOW-A . Then Iz: "FLOW-LA" "Not flowlar" says Bax and tries again. "Flow-a" he says over and over and very carefully announciating each bit and after a bit Iz gets it and shouts "FLOW. A!" SO cute.

Then we can hear Iz turning on her "I'm too tired to sleep" water works. So Bax begins singing to her and shushing her quietly.

Bax loves words: He likes to say delicious! and ridiculous! And ask You're joking?! and he tags Actually onto the end of everything. Izzie says "I like Dragons" a lot.

The other day we were waiting somewhere for something and I said to Bax "Let's learn a new word, how about AMAZING?" He tried it out "Amazing" he said a couple of times but it didn't stick really and I didn't hear him use it all day. Then that night I tucked them in and read a story and as I left the room Bax asked me to turn on the hall light so he could look at a book. I turned on the light and dimmed it a little and called in "How is that Bax?" And Bax called back "Thank you Mummy it's amazing!"