Words of the Days

Since I discovered that J-dude does not know how to spell words that could get him into trouble on Google, and since I have password-locked my laptop to keep hiim from Googling anything at all, I have decided that we, as a family, will be having a WORD of the DAY.

By the way, my son has received straight A's in Spelling every year in school.  I guess bubs was not on the list.  Hmmm.  That's probably Laura Bush's fault.

Yesterday I asked J-dude to pick a letter of the alphabet.  He selected K.  I took the big red dictionary and opened it to the K section.  Looking randomly for an unfamiliar, but not too long, word, I settled on the word keck.  In all honesty I had never heard of the word.  I read:  retch.  Oh boy, a word a 10-year old boy can really use!  So know he knows that, in his own words, "keck and retch mean  to barf."  And he can spell them. 

Today he is looking up the word.  At first he wanted to look up the word ballsy but I gave him permission to do that and that took the fun away, so he has now settled on the word/s Digger (an Indian tribe in the southwest) and digger as in the digger wasp. 

Now he is browsing the dictionary because he realizes...words of the days are a lot of fun.

Now that's my boy.