On Sunday, my 6 and 8 year-old daughters entertained themselves during church services by carrying on a conversation via notes they passed between them. It was not exactly a love-fest. Here is what they wrote:
L (age 6): What is your name
S (age 8): Savannah
L: I cant read.
S: [very messy this time] Savannah
L: Now that is sloppy.
S: Half of it is cursive.
L: I don't care. Wright neat.
S: [carefully written] Savannah
L: I still can't read.
S: If I wrote as neet as I can you still would not be able to read it.
L: Well wright neeter
S: I can not write neeter.
L: Why
S: because ped [sic] is not hot.
L: What is ped.
S: I ment pen
L: What do you mean.
S: You see pen is not hot
L: could you wright that neeter please
S: Pen is not hot.
L: Then it is cold
S: Yes I gess Leila
L: you speld guess rong do you care.
S: [illegible]
L: You had no anser
S: Yes I did I will underline it
L: Well, I can't redd
S: You spelled Read with two ds
L: I still can't Read so stop
S: Well then learn how Leila
L: I wont
S: Learn how to read.
L: Wy
S: So we can get some were. in your word what you forget the a [i.e., 'h']
L: Why
S: To learn
L: Wut
S: Leila I thought I told you how to read.
L: Wut
S: how did this start Leila
L: I Don't NO!
S: well figer it out
L: HOW?
S: Look at the first note
L: Wut whon [one] this wun [arrow pointing off left side of page]
S: No the other one
L: Wut whon. this one [arrow pointing to top of page]
S: That is the same one
L: now it isn't
On the bottom half of the page, Leila drew a picture of a snow person wearing a tiara and a dress. She labeled it: "a snow man." Savannah wrote back, "I think that is a snow woman Leila."
