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We are definitely in an alphabet phase right now. The boys know the alphabet and letter sounds but we have been working on writing and reading. It is funny, J and W have made letters out of trains, pencils, pretzels, sticks, trucks, etc. but we just haven't spent a lot of time writing them.

For fun, I love the cinnamon alphabet/number crackers from Trader Joes. We used them in a "special treat" dessert the other night to spell their names.

And a few weeks ago we made fruit trays for yogurt smoothies and I put a dusting of wheat germ (yes, wheat germ-a.k.a. "sprinkles") on their tray and drew their initial into it...fun and easy! Can you tell we have letters on the brain?

And chalk boards and etch-a-sketch boards are great for practicing too. Here is J showing me

his "smashed T" the other day. Not just normal everyday T's around here...folks...we do it right. Smashed Ts.

And W tracing letters in a dry erase book:

We found a great book from the library called "Alphabet City" by Stephen Johnson and each picture is a photo of something like a park bench, or a bridge, or a building that highlights the shape of a letter. ABCDEFGHIJKlmnopQRSTUVWXYZ