Livia’s class teddy bear, Theodore or Teddy as he is often called, came home with her this weekend. She was ecstatic about this development and proceeded to cuddle him at every opportunity.
The one requirement at the end of Teddy’s visit was a small story on what he did over the weekend. The writer in me needed restraint to not embellish Livia’s words in the classroom journal. After recording her story, I gave her a set of colored pencils so she could draw a picture. The following image is what Livia came up with.
Do you see what she wrote next to the picture? Do you see her first sentence? Yaaaayyy, Liv!! I asked her later how she wrote the sentence and she said she “turtle talked” it. Sometime you’ll have to ask Livia for a demonstration of turtle talking—it’s a fascinating method of sounding out words and I have no idea why it’s called turtle talking. Anyhow, when you adopt a kid you just don’t know much about their development. When is she going to walk? Talk? Read? Write? Etc, etc. And, as mothers often do, you worry a bit about your child. So it is with great pride and great joy that I mark my child’s first sentence. What a beautiful thing.
11 Comments
Renae Jan 10, 2011 10:27 PM
Woot! How precious.
Jen Jan 11, 2011 6:41 AM
Love. Love. Love.
Bully for you, Liv!
tasha Jan 11, 2011 11:31 AM
great job livia!! what a joyous moment to see your daughter excel!! woot woot!!
Claudia Jan 11, 2011 1:09 PM
I can’t read this stuff without crying!!
alina Jan 11, 2011 2:52 PM
Love it. :-)
Claudia Jan 11, 2011 4:57 PM
What does ‘woot” mean??
Jeremy Jan 11, 2011 5:32 PM
Technically it’s w00t. And definitely to this I say w00t!
Claudia Jan 11, 2011 8:15 PM
I don’t get it, Son!?
Papa Jan 11, 2011 8:26 PM
“w00t” was originally an trunicated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for “Wow, loot!” Thus the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in video game communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement.
And Livia, your Papa is excited….Way to go girl.
Bethany Jan 12, 2011 8:42 AM
Yay, Liv!
And I love that the first sentence and its sentiment was directed at the class bear and not a family member or something prosaic like that. :)
chelsey Jan 28, 2011 3:30 PM
i like to affectionately call our school bear “germ bear”.
all my germ-nerdiness aside, yea! liv! i love kindergarten! : )