GRAMA PLEASE COME SIT WITH ME.

At breakfast at the hotel one morning, Annalie brought her dry-erase tablet with her and was busily writing and drawing when I glanced over and saw that she’d written something like: “Grama plez cum sit wi th mee.”

“Annalie, that’s a sentence! You just wrote a sentence!” I told her.

“It is?” she asked, pleased.

“Yeah, and it’s spelled almost right! I can tell exactly what you meant, which is fantastic!”

She immediately said, “Well, how do you really spell it?” I helped her correct her spelling, then kicked myself for not taking a photo of it before we corrected it. Oh well. I’m still proud. And so was she.