Family Fuller

Thanks to a generous Xmas gift from my parents, we have a subscription to the NYT - good thing too, because Colin loves it. Or, more accurately, he loves the HUGE letters in the Times. He has known his alphabet for quite a while, and the fact that the Times uses large fonts for the first letter of many articles is the best thing Colin has ever seen.

Last night we were getting ready for dinner, and a lot of times we’ll give Colin a book before (sometimes during) dinner so that he’s not thinking about the fact that I’m feeding him some squash or other thing he might battle against.

So yesterday’s Times was sitting on the table, along with his Sesame Street ABC book, and when I went to offer him the book he goes, “no no - papay” (translation: paypay = paper)

I gave him the paper, and he dives in - this isn’t the first time he’s become engrossed in the Times, but you can imagine that it takes on a whole new level of entertainment when he’s sitting in his high chair, with the paper open in front of him as he waits for dinner, poring over the day’s news. He usually does one of two things - he’ll find a great big letter and scream it out with delight, or he’ll scream out a letter and expect it to magically appear, and when it doesn’t he’ll carefully sift through the copy looking for one, all the time saying “mmmm, no no, no X” - followed by a scream of joy when he finds a W (lot more of those than X’s starting articles).

Needless to say, we’re working on getting this on film.

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