Smarty Pants

I meant to post this last week when she did it, but I was a little distracted. Emma loves letters lately and we spend a lot of our time sounding things out & spelling them. She's been able to spell her name for a long time and recognizes Mommy & Daddy, Meme, Papa, Addie, and a few other words. Recently she added "S-T-O-P" to her repertoire along with "Boaz" - they learned about Ruth, Naomi and Boaz in Bible class and it has quickly become one of her favorite words to spell aloud. But this picture amazed me. I bought her this chalk board last week because she loves to color and try to write things, and has been successfull at writing "o," "l," "u," and sometimes some other letters. But I had no idea that when she was asking me how to spell "Holly" that she was actually writing it! I had written it with her before a million times along with all our other friends and family's names, but she actually remembered it and managed to (in her cute 2 1/2 year old way) write it! Smarty pants.