While Willa was napping, Larkin said she was going to write a letter. I was getting dinner ready and set her up at the kitchen table to write. She sat there for over 30 minutes writing while I prepared dinner. The whole time she was writing I heard her saying things like, "Uncle Matt, you have a baby coming. How is the baby doing? Fine? Oh that's good. You live far away. You should come play with me" and then there was some, "Auntie Lisa, I miss you. Are you going hunting? Oh that's nice. Did you shoot a turkey? Oh great! I like hunting. We should do that together someday." This went on and on with different friends and relatives until finally she was finished. When I looked at the picture she said, "Look! My writing looks just like your grocery list!" I usually write my lists in cursive, so I'm pretty sure that's what she was trying to copy. She doodles and has conversations like this all the time now!
One day the girls were busy playing together in their rooms. Once things quieted down I started to wonder what was going on back there--and I came around the corner to find this:
storytime!
And then they told me, "Go away because we're busy reading to our animals."
storytime!
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