{This Moment} Her First (Written) Words

{This Moment} - A Soule Mama Friday ritual. A single photo- no words- capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you are inspired to do the same, leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments section for all to find and see. We wish you a wonderful weekend!

Dear Ella

 A friend, and fellow homeschooling mama, recently asked me if Grace and Emma would be interested in becoming pen pals with her daughter. Knowing how much the girls love getting mail I quickly replied "yes!" Her daughter kicked off exchange by sending a fabulous postcard to the girls, and while we had all intentions of writing back right away my plan was foiled when we were sick for two weeks. Thankfully, we're all finally all better and the cards have now been written and mailed (and probably received at this point). Here's to looking forward to much correspondence between these three sweet girls!

Who Knew?!

Saturday evening the girls sat down to make some thank you cards. Paper and markers and stickers were chosen and I asked Emma what she wanted me to write on her card for her."Can I write it, mama? Like Grace does?" she asked. "Of course, baby!" I wrote the word "Thank You" for her to copy and watched in amazement as she did just that! 

Maily:: A Kid's First Email

My friend, and fellow homeschoolin' mama, Emily introduced us to an iPad app called Maily.  Basically it's a kids first email program and it totally rocks!  

I set the girls accounts up last night and introduced them to it today. 

Needless to say, it as an instant hit!

They spent the day learning the ins and outs of Maily and emailing their friends. Such a great app! I love that it sends me copies of what comes in and what goes out. I love that it gives them a chance to connect with their friends in this way.  And I love that it even gives them the chance to work on their writing. It seems to me that this app is still relatively new and in our short period of time using it there are definitely some kinks we'd like to see ironed out, but all in all we're pretty happy with it so far (on this our first day of using it).

Her Name

Yesterday while we were snacking on some very yummy cupcakes from Crumbs Bake Shop Emma took our her new blank book and crayons and proceeded to write her name for the very first time!  We were all  so proud!  In the time it took me to take the photo in Instagram she had added the extra A that you see at the end of her name, but I can assure you that it was correctly spelled when we all cheered for her! Good work, Em!  We are so very proud of you!