T-O-E-O-Y

As parents of preschoolers, we often find ourselves spelling words we don't want the girls to understand.  We did this with the boys also, as I'm sure you do at your home as well.  The boys never seemed to care.  In fact, who knows if they actually knew what we were doing :)  The girls, however, are a different story.  Wesleigh, especially, becomes quite agitated when we spell words and she doesn't know what we're saying.  She knows that the letters make sounds and together make words, but she's not there yet...and it drives her crazy!

I don't know if you've watched Toy Story a million times like we have here, but there is a point in the movie where Woody says to Buzz, "You are a TOY!  T-O-Y toy!".  Wesleigh loves that line and has now adopted her version of it when she wants to spell words instead of say them.  Her version is "T-O-E-O-Y".  It's always the same and she uses it quite regularly.  I even hear her saying that when she and Gracie are pretend playing.  I guess that's what moms do.  Spell words...they just all happen to be spelled T-O-E-O-Y :)

We have been rained in for a couple of weeks now, so opportunities to snap a couple of pics outside have been few and far between.  These two are always game, though.  :)




A couple of months ago, I posted a video of Wesleigh.  I finally sat with Gracie for a couple of minutes and interviewed her.  Here is that video if you want a peek at my crazy girl: