Tirzah Mae loves to write.
Her little notes are strewn about the house and on every available surface (I haven’t had the time or energy to repaint basically the whole basement after last year’s great graffiti-ing. Sigh.)
Anyway, now that she’s doing phonics, her invented spellings are improving. She doesn’t always sound them back out when she’s reading them back to me, though – so I had to laugh when she read this:
“Tirzah Mae
Beth-Ellen
Wrecking truck”
I had to tell her that I didn’t think her memory served her correctly, since that last line clearly says wrecking BACKHOE!