I did complete a little writing today. It was in the form of a thank you note to my in-laws from my three year old. They sent a card for her in the mail and when you open it, I think it’s meant to sing but it sounds more like muffled shouting. The animals from the movie Madagascar adorn the cover, wearing Santa suits. Whenever Ellie wants to send emails, make phone calls, write notes to people, I encourage it no matter how lengthy a process a simple two line, multi-sentence piece of correspondence can take. She hoists herself onto the dining room chair using a couch cushion to prop her up high enough to be able to rest her chin on the hopefully soon to be sold table and nose her way around the keyboard. Forty-five minutes later, here is what we came up with. “dear grandma and  grandpa thank you for the card you gave ellie. grandma and grandpa i love the card you gave me. thank you very much for the card. well i really like the singing you gave me inside the card.grandma and grandpa you always do nice stuff for me and hanna and you always give us treats in the kidmobile grandpa and you give us rides on the kidmobile grandpa and its really fun. that’s very nice of you to give us that. i love that and hanna does too. thank you very much. love ellie