You can't make me learn the alphabet!!

Okay, I was going to try and make a short movie with my son today, but he ended up spending more time at the library and shopping for valentine's day gifts than I had anticipated. So, perhaps we'll do the movie over the weekend and I can post it Monday.

On another note, the boy doesn't know his alphabet yet. And at this point I'm starting to think that he's actively refusing to learn it. Nine months ago when he knew EVERY car from the Cars movie and most of the Thomas the Train trains, I thought well it's because they're exciting and he's been exposed to them for a while. Then it was christmas and he got some of the Ultimate Marvel guide books, and within a week he had learned 20 new Avengers and X-Men (who he can identify in color and black & white). So I thought maybe if I paired the Superheroes with letters then they would be exciting and he would start to learn them through association. That project has stalled out, because I stole images to make it and now I need to find a place that will ignore copyright to print the book for me. Yes, I could just draw the superheroes myself, but at the pace I'm working now, I would finish the book until my son was in high school, and that's really a little to late to be working on the alphabet.

But the thing that's really gotten me recently is that he's gotten in to Transformers (since the Superbowl) and has learned about 20 Transformers. And he's been watching the Star Wars movies with his mom and has about a dozen characters from those movies.
How is this different from the superheroes? Well, first he will learn songs (for Spiderman, Batman, the Transformers, Row Your Boat, Twinkle Little Star, Lollipops) as long as it's not the alphabet song. That seemed a little odd to me. But the final straw was the droids from Star Wars. Their names are just letters and numbers. Well, my son will combine them into words, like "Free-PP-O" (C3PO) which makes him sound like he's protesting the unjust imprisonment of Protocol Droids.