Thursday, February 10, 2011

made with love (and like)

Like most, Elian's kindergarten class will be doing the whole Valentine exchange thing. When I asked him if he wanted me to buy some valentines to distribute, he said he wanted to make them by hand. To expedite the process, I let him choose a font that he liked, then I printed out the list of kids in his class. He painstakingly cut out lovely hearts in pink, red, purple and orange, then glued on each child's name and wrote "From Elian" on all of them. He decided he needed a much-deserved break after all of this labor-intensive art before moving on to the decorating-with-stickers phase. But before plopping down in front of Word Girl, he decided to write personal messages on a few of him. First to his best friend Solveig whom he often proclaims to love and has once proposed marriage to. Here's what he wrote:

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He then said he wanted to write a message on another girl's valentine. Thinking he might proclaim his love for her as well, I waited patiently as his marker slowly scrawled out the message:

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Side 2: