My DS is also Feb 08 and we started out by singing our ABC's mostly because I got stuck for bed time songs and he kept saying to me "new song Mummy, new song Mummy" and I couldn't think of anything one night so I sang ABC etc and he loved it then one day he started singing it and now can confidently sing his whole ABC's. In relation to writing it he can write his name, this is something that he has been learning at kindy and I have been helping him at home but only at his request, or if he has drawn a picture I will say "would you like to write you name on it so Nannie and Pa know who this is from?" and he will write it and he can also recognise his name and the letters in his name when they are written elsewhere too but apart from that he doesn't have much of an idea as to the other letters, he does have cards and the Alphie robot but he has only just started getting into this...