Except she’s actually 9 today…
Playing i-spy again yesterday on the way to school.
d says ‘v’.  Turned out to be for ‘very, very, very small car’ (MX5)
Later it was ‘n’.  The first clue was ‘3 letters’.
My guesses were not, nat, nut, nib, nob,
2nd clue was ‘n-u’, leading to nug, nub, num..
Yes!  R chimes in with ‘but [...]

than to leave this page ‘remembered’ on the laptop.  I assume Husband was trying to make me smile at some point while he’s on the other side of the world.  Honey, if you read this, it worked!