The following appeared on Mary Ann's blog this morning:
This delightful paragraph was in my yesterday's morning email from our blogmaid:
One of the things I gave RR for Valentine's Day was a little notebook with a kitty on the front -- from that Japanese store I went to with Linda. She put it under her pillow last night, along with a flashlight and pen, and told me that when I left the room she was going to write in it. She fell asleep before I left, so I moved the items over to her bedside shelf, but in the middle of the night (3 am) I heard sounds coming from the monitor, and I went in to check on her and she was sitting up in bed, writing in her notebook with the flashlight. It was beyond cute.
When I read Mary Ann's post, I emailed Kristin right away to ask what Ryan had written in the middle of the night.
Hi Linda!
Yes, you can steal those photos from Mary Ann, and here's one more that she didn't publish if you want it. RR wrote "Cat cat best animal in the world" in case you can't make it out. When she saw me photographing the page she said "Hey! That's secret!" Then she continued "You can send it to Mary Ann, but you can't post daily updates on Facebook!"
Kristin explained: The kindergartners are encouraged to write the way words sound, and their anal retentive editor parents have to be OK with it.
Even though it's secret, Ryan did give me permission to post what she wrote on my blog.
7 comments:
I love my note pad from the Geary St. store too and spell things my own way.
That is beyond cute.
That's a brave kid to write at night with a flashlight. At that age (and older!) I was scared of ghosts and monsters (even though they never showed up.)
Me too Namo! I had my older sister sit by my bed until I would fall asleep. Sometimes she tried to sneak away and I would call her back. Never saw a monster or ghost either.
Cute story Linda.
But it's so much more than a cute story: Don't you agree that she wrote words of truth and wisdom?
Yes Linda, she will be a great writer, that's obvious!!
You gave me such a notepad and I haven't written anything on it!
cat cat indeed. She probably doesn't get woken up at 3 am for no apparent reason, no matter how many things you check on (food? water? out? in? WHAT?!? She only wakes up to write. THAT's poetic.
"Don't you agree that she wrote words of truth and wisdom?"
I believe so (this from someone allergic to cats!). When I watch a kid draw or write, I'm often astonished at how deliberate each move is. They know what they want to draw/say.
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