At the risk of sounding like a bad mom. I am starting to cringe at sentences that begin with why. Which is every sentence that Elliot speaks. It is not a rhetorical why. She is tenacious enough that if we don't answer (from exhaustion) she keeps asking. We are suffering from an overload of curiosity. Why did Toad crash his car again? Why did you sit on the couch and not the red chair? Why did Henry just spit up again? Why did you do it that way? Why is that girl wearing boots? Why is that man's hair long like a girl? Why is the little red hen red? Why WHY?! I don't know WHY!!!
and don't get this bad mom started on how I don't like playing pretend for 8 hours straight. I just don't enjoy it. Elliot can inexhaustibly play Laura Ingalls and Farmer Boy ALL-DAY-EVERY-DAY.
Elliot: you be Mary
Us: let's play another game.
Elliot: ok let's play school. You be the teacher and I will be Laura.
Seems suspiciously like the same game to me. humph.
Well. That was cathartic. So, back to the title of this post. The ABC tree. We are finding letters everywhere. She has never seemed too driven to draw pictures. Try as we might to show her smiley faces and stick people. And she doesn't color. she takes tests, does her lessons, and gets information. She asks questions (what is your name? What is your city? What is your husband's name?) and then scribbles the answer down. She doesn't show much interest in drawing but is desperate to write. And when her favorite game of spelling bee evolved into spelling test - she really did begin writing letters. In her beautiful 3 year old hand. Letters have been showing up everywhere. A lot of E's, but an important letter for an Elliot.
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| E. L. C. |
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| E. |
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| F.A. |
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| E.L.C. |
Someone's proud mama took a lot of photos. Who did that?
That looks like Izaak's penmanship.
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