A maf flew into the beer

We’re doing Aa this week, finally a vowel…so now Aaron can actually start learning how to read, by putting together the sounds he has learned so far, to make rat, fat, mat, bat etc. I put together “t” “a” and “b”, and told him this is something that Grandpa likes to drink. The wheels turned for a few seconds, and his answer was “beer?” We all just laughed and laughed. Then I gave him “maf” to read. “What is maf?” he asked. So Caleb, sitting at the diningroom table, displayed the beginnings of a great Balderdash in his answer: “It’s the South American way of saying ‘moth’!”