She is Learning to S-P-E-L-L

Yup. That's right. She's been writing her name for a long time. Now she is experimenting with upper and lower case letters (the future kindergarten teachers told us she should know how to write it with just a capital C and everything else lower case to be ready for K next year). She's also experimenting with a new name, Clare. Apparently a schoolmate changed her name to Clare and CJ followed that lead. It's not unusual to have her hand you a piece of art, signed by Clare. She's even claiming that she isn't going to listen to the teacher at school if he doesn't call her Clare. And it is definitely her "home name".

But, back to spelling. Sometime around Valentine's Day she really took to making cards and almost every day there is a card "To Mom" and/or "To Dad". So all those words are known. And then she was in hysterics when she called Grandma R for her birthday the other day and reported all the other words she knows how to spell including c-a-t and "n-o - it's so easy because it is only two letters!"