Those of you familiar with The Letter Factory will probably appreciate this post a little more than those who aren't.  Ryan has learned all the sounds to his letters and the letter K is by far his favorite. On the Letter Factory, "The K says kick".  Each time he sees a k, Ryan kicks out his leg and says, "tick" (he struggles with making the k sound at the beginning of words, which according to the Eric the linguist is common as many kids have difficulty with "voiced and unvoiced velar stops").  I think Ryan has learned his lesson to make sure he's not too close to the coffee table, couch or any other hard object when he's doing his kicking...thank goodness :). Love this kid!