Seven Red

Or barely, hereby, in the form of the most improbable signature. - Jacques Derrida, “Signature Event Context”

For the last week or so we’ve been working more with babygirl on her letters. She was really resisting writing anything before now, but somehow she managed to interest her in producing letters rather than just identifying them. She’s been pretty good with the alphabet for awhile. For some reason, she really shrank from having to make letters, so we’re happy that this week she finally got into it. Every day that I picked her up from daycare, I saw that she was practicing her letters along with her coloring. She even had her full name written out on one of her coloring pictures.

So, anyway, I’ve been debating whether to scan and post one of these attempts, because all she writes is her name (it’s only three distinct letters), and that would give up the whole anonymous blog gambit, at least as far as babygirl is concerned. She now wants to write her full name, so we’re just going to go ahead and unveil babygirl’s recent (and, to my mind, best) creation. I think it’s pretty tight, less than three weeks before her third birthday, but I’m the daddy, so I get to puff everything up like that.

We’ll work on getting it inside those lines, but there are worse problems one could have, I suppose!

Since a very young age, I’ve been fascinated by the alphabet, which I think explains a lot of my subsequent activities. But watching her struggle with letterforms, slowly improve, and then just grasp them – it brings back all that old wonder. She was making A’s today as part of her quest to write her full first name, and the most difficult part seems to be connecting the lines at the top, bringing them to a point. She draws parallel lines and then cuts across them with a curve. But she’s really tough on herself. She says, “No, that’s not an ‘A.’” Keep working on it, Ellie. You’ll get there.

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