You can work a lot of things into your day to day activities - talk to him about everything you're doing, put simple name cards on the door, cot, bath etc - read or look at anything with words and pictures, junk mail, magazines, the newspaper, books ... go for walks and see trees and dogs and shops and anything. Count peas, nuggets, flowers, blocks. There is an ABC cd with songs about words and numbers thats really simple and catchy, it has a red cover. We also made an ABC book with a big exercise book and a letter to a page with cut out things for each letter.

Between two and three years is a great time - their talking takes off, they understanding is amazing. I also used to emphasize the first letter of things - like t-t-t-t-toast or ssssssss-ausages. I don't know what boys are like with drawing, but Cait loved to draw, scribble as soon as she could hold a crayon and not eat it. So you do a picture as well and write MUM on it and write his name on his.

The funniest thing with my Cait - you know when you talk to gas or phone or anything like that and they need all your name, address phone number etc before they will talk to you ? Cait heard me say those so many times, she knew my full name, her address and phone number before she was three ! She also started reading at 4.5 and could write her name at three.