Blowing & Drifting

Thanks to the very catchy Justin Roberts song "Meltdown," the chorus of which is his shouting out the letters in the title word, Julia is very interested in spelling things. Or rather, she is very interested in hearing how things are spelled. I can always catch her flagging attention by simply spelling out a word that I'm saying. "It's T-I-M-E to T-A-K-E your B-A-T-H." More often than not, doing this will elicit a whole chain of half-curious, half-amused questions about orthography, each posed in her characteristic way: "What does 'Mama' spell? What does 'Daddy' spell? What does, uhm [look around the room for something else] 'cushion' spell?" I love that she has invented her own idiosyncratic but perfectly clear way to ask how to spell something.