Notes and stories

Perhaps one of my favorite new things that Riley seems to be very into lately is writing notes and stories.  There are so many, I wouldn't be able to post them all, but I thought these were funny and sweet.  The two on the dry erase board were just spur of the moment notes that she decided to write one night while we were playing after dinner.  Each time, she wouldn't let us look until she was done with the note.

During that time (and to a slightly lesser extent now) she wants the new baby's name to be Evan.  I also love the artwork with the one to Brenna, especially the Star of David.  She had been drawing flags earlier and one was the Israel flag. :)

This story is something that she wrote one night while we were gone - she was home with the babysitter.  We saw it later and asked our babysitter if she had helped her at all and she said no!  She said Riley did it all by herself (I think it might have been while she was putting Brenna to bed or something).  It was in a challenge packet that her teacher gave her.  The instructions were just to write a story about something that happened in the fall.  Anyway, it was so funny to us that I have to share.

It says "Once upon a time there was a girl and her name was Riley and she loved her friends and what she wanted to do on halloween was go trick-or-treating and eat all her treats but her mom & dad didn't let her but only what she could do was cry and then she did and then she was so sad and then she went upstairs and then she went to bed and then the next morning she had one treat and her mom & dad thought that was a great idea.  the end."

Since then (this was done in November), she has gotten better at making her stories more than one long run-on sentence!  As part of her homework she gets the opportunity to write stories along with illustrations, which is great.  I love seeing what she comes up with (pictures and stories).