‘M’ and ‘R’

For the past several days, all I have been hearing from Quincy is, “Daddy look for ‘M’ and ‘R’. What happened to them you ask? I have no idea. Quincy loves playing with his Sassy brand bath alphabet and numbers – except we never have used it in the bathtub.

The other day he was flingin’ ’em all around the living room. There aren’t a lot of little cracks and crevices for them to hide in, but ‘lo-and-behold, when Quincy went to do his alphabet in order, he stalled out at ‘M’. I did a quick inventory and noticed we were shy the ‘R’ also. On the face of things, one would think it was no big deal. For Quincy, however, it is a big deal. He loves his letters, his alphabet and spelling words. He can currently spell, DOG, CAT, ASHBY and QUINCY all by himself. Once he ran into the ‘M’ conundrum, he was stuck and became fixated on daddy finding them.

I did a hard target search of every bin, couch cushion, chair, rug, bookcase and Ashby’s pooh – okay not that last one. My search turned up empty. I have no idea where they are and they aren’t small either, that’s the strange part.

My he’s-driving-me-nuts-with-the-letters-bit came to a head yesterday when the first words out of his mouth after his nap were, “Daddy find ‘M’ and ‘R’.” Nope, daddy didn’t find them. Instead, daddy did what a lot of parents have done when a favorite toy is missing or incomplete – I bought more.

We drove to Target today and they only had the Munchkin brand letters. They look similar, but I wasn’t about to throw a toddler’s world into that much chaos. Thankfully, Toys ‘R Us had the Sassy brand and I scooped up two more bags of the letters – for when he can spell words that have the same letter more than once. So now we have a reserve bag that is already depleted of the letters ‘M’ and ‘R’ and the number ‘1’ – have no idea what happened to that one.

So that was our morning – papa nerd taking care of his nerdling.