Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Percussive wisdom

One of Hannah's favorite new activities is typing. She has always liked to play on the computer, but lately she has started to be able to sound words out phonetically and type them (with help). With Mommy or Daddy standing next to her helping her sound out the words, she can type "dog" or "Nana" or other simple words. The other night I came down from putting Lydia to bed to find a note Hannah had written. After carefully typing the names of everyone in our family (with Daddy's help, of course) Hannah wrote a note on her own, offering three-year-old wisdom. If you or I were to read it, it would say something like this:

FFFFFGTTPNEUWWWWWLLLLLPPAJHSTNSSSSSKKKKKKHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (for seven more lines...)

But when I asked Hannah what she wrote, this is what it said:

"Be kind. Don't be shy. Tambourine."

I'm not sure if Tambourine was the name of the intended recipient of this advice, or Hannah's pen name, or an actual part of the advice. If the latter is the case, I'm still pondering the implications.

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