Spell check

Cailan likes to type. We open up a Word document and let him at it. He’ll ask us to make the letters bigger or smaller, or to change the font, or to make the letters different colors. Some of the colors he likes are magenta, orangey-brown, and blue-with-a-little-silver-in-it. He will often type the alphabet, slowly and in order. He also likes to type the numbers in order and then use the shift key to type all the symbols that are above the numbers.

Today as I was leaving for work, Cailan was asking Chris if he could type, and Chris said they could do that. Cailan asked, “How big of letters do I want?” Chris said, “I don’t know, Cailan. How big do you want the letters to be?” Cailan said, “I want colossal.”

So first Chris checked his email on his Gmail account, and then they typed for awhile. Chris went to start a load of laundry, leaving Cailan at the computer. When he came back, Cailan said “I typed Gmail.” Sure enough, on the screen:

GEMAYL