M A S O N

The past few weeks Mason has been writing his name and spelling it out loud several times a day! Most of the time he'll spell it and say 'Mason', but he will occasionally spell it, then say 'hat' or 'mom' or whatever he thinks he spelled. A couple of days ago he was pointing out the letters on Tristyn's carseat and said "G R A C O . . . Tristyn". He also spells HAT all the time. We've also worked on MOM, DAD, CAR, TOY, and a few other easy words. He knows how to write all of his letters and writes with both hands. His favorite is to write HAT on his magnadoodle, then put it up on his head like a hat. He actually puts almost everything on his head and says hat--today it was the cookie dough scooper and my toothpaste. He does it a lot when he's uncomfortable about something or thinks he's going to get in trouble for something.

As I've mentioned before, Mason loves Blue's Clues and there's an episode about body language where they teach about facial expressions. Blue wants to pretent to be angry, so the clues are scrunched up eyebrows, scrunched up mouth, and hands on hips. So, Mason started drawing faces with eyebrows and either a happy or sad face. The eyebrows are scrunched whether the face is happy or sad! He likes to go through all the clues and do the scrunched eyebrows and mouth in the mirror. Here are a couple of his drawings and mine that shows the hands on hips. There have been a couple of times that I've pointed out my scrunched eyebrows and hands on hips so he knew I was angry or upset about something. It has worked to get him to go potty at least once!