Earlier this month Ed and Suephy (and Jared and Dylan) got our kids their birthday gift: matching personalized puzzle stools. These stools have colored letters that can be taken out and put back in. We thought they would be nice because they’ll help Miranda and Eleanor eventually learn how to spell their names. I think Eleanor has the tougher name to spell since the A is silent.
The girls loved their stools. They’re short enough that they can easily sit on them and have their feet touch the ground. They each like to reassemble their names, and they don’t like it when one of them tries to play with the other’s puzzle.
This is Eleanor on the first day she got the stool:
Miranda’s sitting across both stools.
Eleanor and Miranda have started reading out the letters, saying “baby” before each lowercase letter: baby i, baby r, baby a, etc. It comes from them calling anything small a baby.
It took a little while, but the girls can assemble their names most of the time. We sometimes have to call out the next letter for them, or help them fit it quite right into the stool.