I hope this isn't obnoxious yet

Y'all, I just have to say I am so unbelievably impressed with R's attempts to sound out words and write. She resists reading and trying to read, but she loves, boy does she love to write. My mom sent both kids some really fun workbooks (I know that sounds like an oxymoron but both kids have been having a ball, so there!) and R spent some time yesterday working on one of them. She would trace each letter a few times and then trace the word.

By the time she got to K, she totally got the idea and instead of going straight to tracing, she came up with two "k" animals and wrote them down herself-- "KAGAROW" and "KWiLA".

SERIOUSLY! I am SO IMPRESSED! 

"This Picture Has a Story"

R was sitting at her art table and found this picture she drew sometime last week. She pulled it out, looked at it intently, and announced, "Mommy, mommy, this picture has a story!"

"It does?! Will you tell it to me? Can I write it down?"

"Yes!"

She and I ran together to the art table. I picked up paper and crayon and proceeded to transcribe the following story, based on the picture above, which, yes, does have a grease stain on it.

Title: "Growing Flower Sun Goes Down"
By: R

Once upon a time a biiiiiiig blob came down and a flower grew. And little fishies showed up and saw the blob and the fishies kept swimming and looking. The flower grew higher and higher and higher. And the hill started to grow. And the sun came out. And the sun went down. The End.