Forgotten Placemats

I meant to grab the cheapie paper placemats from the dinner restaurant tonight and bring them home with us. There were some treasures drawn on the back. I, of course, forgot.

Mackenna found an "M" "A" and "C" on the front of the placemat and was able to circle each of them (she found the G first when she was looking for the C). On the back, I wrote her name in yellow and she very successfully (for her FIRST attempt at this) traced it in purple. She also wrote an "e" totally unprompted. It looked great - upside down, but great. She announced proudly what it was. She then wrote a really really good M also unprompted. When I was spelling her name, she really wants there to be an "O" in it, so we made a few extra of those at the bottom. Of all the spellings I have seen for Mackenna, they rarely....eh-hem, never....include an O. Sorry dear.

Curt tried the same tracing event with Micah's name - let's just say it was a little less successful. This may be one boy/girl stereotype that is actually going to stay true.