yay!

My A who is 3 years old wrote her name for the 1st time tonight :) and she wrote it very legible, near perfect A if I say so myself! :) .... then she wrote the word baby, "because I'm a baby mommy" lol. I was so proud, we picked up my mom at the airport today and the girls made up stories on the way home and I said that I would write them down and they could draw pics of their story and we could make a little book. So after dinner I sat down with them and wrote out J's story about a pony, a frog and a dragon. She drew the pony. A's story was about a dragon and a piggie. She drew a very cute purple dragon with stripes and I wrote her story out as she told it to me.

I love being the one that they tell this stuff to and to be the first person to hear their ideas and share in their discovery of writing and story telling. J is reading simple words that she remembers by spelling them out. "N-O, no!" "G-O, go!" She will find all the words she knows outside, or anywhere we are and read them.

I know that we are doing well with our home schooling once the kids are excited and learning at their own pace but are still a little ahead in some areas.....