Gabe loves to write..

Gabe absolutely loves to spell, read, & write. He likes to get out the markers for our dry erase board and spell words, erase them, and spell more. He also loves to play with his magna doodle for the same thing. He will bring it to us and tell us a word and then say "spell it". This kid is a sponge, you can show him one word and he knows exactly what it is and knows how to spell it. He even sounds words out, it is amazing! Well the other day I left him unattended with markers, (yeah, what was I thinking?) This is what I came back to:

Luckily it was Crayola Washable markers this time.  He was so proud of himself, he just kept saying "from, from, from".  That is the dry erase board eraser that he is holding in his hand.  He was trying to erase it off of the carpet and didn't understand why it wasn't coming off.  He looked at me and said "uh oh".

I went to the laundry room and grabbed the Spray & Wash with Resolve Power (love that stuff, works great on carpet) and a wet washcloth and I was able to scrub it right out.  Thank goodness!  I told him "color on paper, not on the carpet" and then I gave him a stack of printer paper. 

He had a great time with that:

He is amazing to watch, he can write a word the correct way and then he will write it in mirror image, you can see that with "this".  As you can see, he also know his vowels.  He cracks me up.  Okay, then he found a big piece of sidewalk chalk the other day and has had great fun with that too.  He went all around the backyard writing words all over the fence and the backyard.

( I put together a collage of the different sections of the fence)

He wrote "jump" on the trampoline, "table" on the patio table, "house" on our sliding glass door, "slide" on the slide, "swing" on the swing.  Later in the night I went to put the boys to bed and found that he wrote all over their bedroom walls with chalk.  In Sebastian's room he wrote "bees", "oh pig", & foot.  In his room he has big squares painted on his wall; red, yellow, & blue.  Well, he wrote "red", "yellow", & "blue" in the appropriate squares.

Good thing chalk rinses right off!!