The P Is Hidden

Clara has her phonics class on Mondays so the letter up for discussion there is also often a topic of discussion at Monday's dinner table. Yesterday's letter was L. Clara contributed lollipop, lizard, and ladder ("like Daddy sometimes uses to do stuff on the roof!") to the class list of L words. Longtime Fans know that what we White Housers like to do sometimes for fun is rattle off words that begin with a particular letter and there's nothing like a phonics class discussion to kick off a round. (Oh we do dorky fun up right here at the White House, Fans.) Sometimes the bambini tee up a word that has a the letter of the moment in it.  Different, advanced letter gaming and tough to discern the degree of deliberate choice being except used in so doing, so it's a banned practice. Somehow last night--the exact connective tissue lost in the letter fun--Joe said he had a hidden letter in his name: the P, which he drew on the outside of his cheek with his finger--like it was hiding in his mouth? He said it's there, but you can't hear it. It's true that it's not Joe-sep. Right? Right. This kid!  This kid! Right?! Right.