Spelling antics

There's a certain period of time with children when you can T-A-L-K in F-R-O-N-T of the children by S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G thing O-U-T. Primus cut that short when he learned to read quite early, so we didn't get much time, and now he's also doing it to say secret things in front of his little brother. But not always with 100% success. At the end of dinner the other night;

"Mama, Daddy, I'm F-O-O-L."
"You're what?"
"I'm F-O-O-L. I don't want any more dinner".

and then later, after the bath, when he wanted to go upstairs and read his book:

"Daddy, I want to go upstairs to read H-A-R-R-Y P-O-T-T-Y".

Well, it's a start, I guess. He's usually a bit more accurate than the above would indicate.