surprises

Sometimes kids will surprise you.  Peter surprised me on Friday afternoon when he wrote this on Grandpa's sidewalk:



I had a suspicion that he had finally learned his colors (he struggled with them for a long time) by learning their words.  I just had no idea he could write them, with no help from me.  He also wrote pink and purpe (his only spelling mistake). 

Make sure to join me in a day or two for a little tutorial I've been working on as  part of the Sew, Mama, Sew Tutorial Contest - there are just a few more days before it ends.  I know Katie has been working on one too.  I'm not expecting to win anything, but I appreciate the motivation to do a tutorial that I've actually had in my head for a little while now.  See you soon!

p.s. Did you see this from Kids Craft Weekly?  perfect timing!

Comments

[Mary]

What a wonderful moment to capture for posterity! You must be so proud.

[Randi]

How cute that he figured that out all by himself! Smart kid!

Looking forward to you tutorial.

[Sarah]

Awww, too freaking cool! Yea for Peter.
:-)

[lera]

Too cute.

Good luck on your tutorial! I can't wait to see it.

[Cayenne]

Nice penmenship. Pretty impressive. His "y's" especially look like yours. =)

[Christina]

That's a nice surprise! I like how he spelled out the colors with the right color of chalk.

[Missy]

So cool! I should work on spelling more with Hannah and Luke. Hannah pretty much only knows how to write her name and mom. She's probably ready to learn more. She writes random letters all the time and asks me what they say.

[Katie]

how cool! Way to go Peter!

Thanks for the link to the alphabet crafts. Isaiah will really love those ideas.

Can't wait for your tutorial. I just finished mine up!

[Abby]

What a stinking smarty pants dude my kid doesn't do that :) See Peter is a quiet little genius like his daddy! By the way you invites were way cute let me know if you guys need help.

[natasha]

1st, thanks for your 2 cents on my whiny "what about me?" post! I need all the feedback I can get on that!

So neat about Peter's colors and I love how you captured it! Griffin is my one who has struggled (well, compared to his sister) and tonight he sat at the kitchen table and recited my phone # out loud over and over out of nowhere. I can't explain how excited I was, only another mother could understand.

I have been meaning to tell you that Griffin's speech therapist recommended yoga for him. I thought, yeah, where do they teach that for 4 year olds? But I finally found a class and enrolled him! It is supposed to really help with producing slower, easier speech. (He has repetition issues, among others.) Anyway, just thought I'd pass that along. I need to do a post on my blog about it eventually. I figure with speech therapy three times a week and yoga once a week, we can't lose, right?

[kirsten]

wow, that is really cool! it is so fun to see these steps! and i liked the abc issue of kids craft weekly, too.

(and for natasha - there are yoga videos - we got a cool one from target which the kids like)