Writing

We are regular writing machines lately.  Rachel has a journal that she writes in every day at school.  Sometimes she even illustrates her entries.  She received a blank storybook for her birthday and is in the midst of writing the tale of the princess Alison who rides in a giant ice cream cone.  She wrote all her own thank-you notes for the first time this birthday.  And check out my cake:

Nathan, too, has suddenly begun writing things.  He did all the writing in the birthday card he made for Rachel--surprised me, as I'd never asked him to write any letters besides the ones in his name.  And he wrote his friends' names on his party invitations.  We're writing!