Thursday, May 26, 2022 The End of the Alphabet

Some of you might be interested to see how I finished out the flash card set I was making for our granddaughter.

If it weren’t for the word “xylophone,” every alphabet book for children would be in trouble. I guess you can say “X as in Fox, or Box,” but it feels a little like cheating. My sister and I made an alphabet book in 1982 for our nephew using made-up words. We could have made up ANY word we wanted for X, but we gave it up as a lost cause. The X page simply said “X is a impossible letter which is meaningless and without worth.”

The best part of making these cards has been watching our granddaughter trying to pronounce them. She does a really good job and if there’s a word that’s not very familiar, she gives it her best shot. There’s something so adorable about that stage in which kids will try to pronounce pretty much everything you throw at them. I discovered when we had children that age that the word “ruler,” was one that brought endless entertainment…for me, anyway. “Woo-wah” was that way it came out. I still remember trying to teach the twins how to say the word “yellow,” which they pronounced “lellow.” Here’s how it went:
Me: Say “Yay!”
Twins: “Yay!!”
Me: Yay!
Twins: Yay!
Me: Yellow!!
Twins: Lellow!

Now that I’m done with the flash cards, I can get back to the watercolor classes and starting the next felt creature, which is a snail that delivers mail. Unless I get distracted with something else…

I’ll probably measure this post with a “woo-wah” in the morning and find it wanting.