A bright sunshiney day

I know this pic is kind of blurry, but it captures the way I see Liv these days. There are so many thoughts going on in her head and I can see that sorting process going on here. I remember how confusing the world was at six. Liv tries so hard to sort it all out. Sometimes I am amazed at the questions she comes up with but I'm even more amazed at the answers she comes up with. She's quite the thinker this one.

Today she brought me her magna-doodle to look at. It had a picture of a tower with three sets of letter pairs beside it, one above the other. The pairs were : xi, ra, pr. She told me it was a word and wondered if I could read it. I couldn't and I'll give a hundred bucks to anyone who can! The word was...skyscraper! She's learning phonics with my mom and she must have mixed up the "ks" sound of x for "sk." It is so cool to see a child learn this way - truly through trial and error without any fear of disappointing anyone or having to do it right. Tonight we had a hilarious game of making up silly and naughty sentences for her to read on the magna-doodle. "Can a cat see?" eventually became "Can a hat pee?" I want to be free enough to learn this way - through play. You can make all the mistakes you want when you are playing and nobody cares - in fact the mistakes are part of the laugh.


And as for this scruffy child who wouldn't let me change her shirt for 48hrs... well she gave me the laugh of the day today. After dinner we were eating homemade chocolate chip cookies and Ivy came to me asking for another one (empty hand out with a question on her face..."cookie?"). I asked her where her cookie went and she pointed waaaay down her throat. I laughed and told her that her cookie was in her tummy now - and then I listened to her tummy and told her that I could hear it. She thought this was hilarious and went over to daddy to see what he thought of all this. She held out her empty hand and said "cookie?" and then pointed to her mouth and then her tummy. He then asked her where his cookie had gone. She crawled up onto his chest and looked into his open mouth...and at the top of her lungs yelled "coooookiee..." into his mouth. She is quite the funny girl.