Rill Riting

When I was a little girl, my grandmother showed me a letter that my cousin had written to our uncle. In it she asked him to please not write in "rill riting," or real writing, as she was just learning to read and apparently couldn't read what he had written to her.

Sallie is learning how to write in the first grade now, and I'm thinking about petitioning the schools to stop teaching kids how to spell correctly because I think that kids' phonetic writing is the cutest thing ever.

Letter to a Prince on his 7th Birthday (which is not until March):

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Letter to a Weary and Sometimes Under-Appreciated Mom:

Equally endearing, Eliza is working on her own version of rill riting. After she wrote this for her grandparents, she very proudly told me that she "just sounded it out." I can very proudly see that she did just that (it says, "Thank you, Mama Sudie and GDaddy"). Text Message Shorthand?

As cute as that is, it's not very representative of how well Eliza is actually writing these days. She does a great job, although she has this cute little grammar rule that tells her that she can hyphenate (or not) a word wherever she wants to. Like this cute little birthday card she made for her friend Alen
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Not to be outdone, Reagan just made this birthday card for her friend Caedan. I wrote "Happy Birthday, Caedan. Love, Reagan" on a piece of paper for her, and she very diligently wrote every single letter. Although it took me a while to decipher some of it. Word search birthday card, anyone?

Special thanks to Trent for the visual!