writing

madelyn is so much like me, it is scary. (mainly because i know what i was like as a teenager.)  and, like me, she has a hard time trying anything she might not be 'perfect' at the first time.  (i am happy to report that i did outgrow this around my junior year of high school.)  this has been the main problem with getting her to read and write - she doesn't want to try and fail.

so i was more than delighted to find this paper in her room!  she wrote "God Love" over and over (in an upper/lower case pattern i just noticed as i was writing this post).  she has been writing a lot more often, but only with me spelling things for her or with her copying off something she has read - like a flash card. i asked her about this paper and she said that she knew how to spell "love" and then just sounded out the letters in "God" (she has a school phrase for 'sounding out' that i can't think of right now). 

i am not sure what i am more proud of - what she wrote, that she wrote or that she spelled it out on her own!

as i mentioned, she has been writing a lot more and, thanks to playing with some older firends, she now likes to make her own books (or just likes to use the stapler).  she has just started this one so only the cover is 'complete' but it was the example i could find for a picture.  she was able to spell all of the words herself but asked me to write them down on some scrap paper for her to copy them on to her book.  she spelled them for me as i wrote.

not totally related, but she can do some mean bubble letters of words too.  you know, where you draw the outside and inside shape of a letter so that you can color them in?  i should see if i can get a picture of that too.  she just squirels everything away to keep her brothers out of it and i can't always find it without her help. 

what self-made kid writing have you been most proud of?  love.