If you’re wondering whether or not L would be good at charades, the answer is no. Of course not. Nevertheless, I’ve been playing with him. We have a game made for little kids and the cards each have the word or phrase, as well as a simple picture so L is able to play. Well, has the potential to play anyway.

So, yesterday we’re playing and for his turn L stands up, with his arms outstretched and his eyes closed. “That’s it?” I ask. “That’s it.” he answers. “Is there anything else you could do to help me out?” He opens and closes his hands at the end of his outstretched arms.

“Are you a tree?”

“No.”

“Isn’t there anything else you could do to help me guess?”

“I’ll give you a clue. It starts with a ‘te, te, te’ sound” (He makes the sound you’d make when sounding out the letter T.)

“Are you sure you’re not a tree?”

“No, Mommy! I’m a ‘tatue!”

See, L drops the “s” from the beginning of words. So star is ‘tar, school is ‘cool. Meanwhile, I looked at his card and on it was a clear picture and the word “BOAT.”