Christmas 2004 Big was working on learning his ABCs. Both on sight and their sounds. We had a ton of help in this task from the leap frog Letter Factory. Big was obsessed with watching it. As I've mentioned about a million and one times before he's always loved learning. As he learned to spot each letter and their sound we'd add it to our Christmas tree (this was Jay's great idea). Big loved it. he loved showing off his tree full of ABCs. Proudly walking everyone who came over to see his newest letter. It was fantastic! As Christmas turned to New Years our tree had a FULL and complete alphabet hanging from it. It was perfect. A visual reminder that an amazing little boy lived in the house. A boy who loved learning, and silliness, and the simple things like paper ABC's strung with yarn on a tree.