Day by Day

It's getting closer and closer, but when will it happen? It's such a mystery! Who's in there? When will we get to meet you? Two more days and we'll be at 38 weeks. The days are just dragging by and there haven't been any sort of signs of anything happening for a long time. I'm almost finding it irritating to not be having any middle of the night contractions, which is probably weird. Lots of braxton-hicks, but nothing with any bite. Bring it on! I should be careful what I wish for.

I've been wanting to write about Irina and her adventures in literacy for a while now. It's like she's had this huge burst of development where letters and the alphabet and writing/deciphering are concerned. It started with her wanting me to "draw" the alphabet for her. She would repeatedly bring her notebook to me and ask me to write all the letters of the alphabet and then she would take her pen and trace over everything I had written. A few times she wrote the letters herself underneath the ones I had written. Nowadays when she has a pen or pencil and a piece of paper to write on, I find lots of letters that she has written on her own. She seems to favor R's, P's, B's, and L's, but other letters show up too. (On a side note, she's also been making representational people for a while now as well. Big heads with stick legs and arms, giant eyes and all. I love those pictures.) And the other night while I was reading to myself before bed and she was reading to herself, I noticed that she was pointing to each letter on a page that had big, bold, upper case letters and she was saying each one. Getting most of them right too.

So that's where she is and I find it so fun to watch this beginning part of her reading/writing journey.