Christmas fun has been had and we're now moving back into summer holiday fun.

Nathan finished writing his Mr Magic book for nannie and grampy and gave it to them for a Christmas gift. He moved from me spelling out the words to him, to doing some copy writing since I was a bit busy needing to get multiple things done, so that was a little different for him. He has plans for more books in his series.

It was interesting while he was having me spell out the words, he noted the irony in the letters he was writing and the sound they make. When I said 's' he said "that should start with an "e". After a moment of clicking to what he was meaning it was amusing to me to note how his mind worked. Then I would say 'c' and he's say "that should start with a "s" and giggle, then I would say 'f' and he'd say "e" and I'd say 'm' and he'd say "e". Kind of like the time he was adament that the word "one" wasn't really because it didn't start with a "w". Confusing is this English language.

I got Nathan a Tintin book for Christmas, so we were reading that before bed. One of the frames had some writing in cursive and he wondered in amazement that I could read it when "it was all joined together". So I explained what it was and isolated several words for him to read which he did so he realise he could and it wasn't all that different to printed letters.