Lydia’s Name, originally uploaded by deannajo.

Lydia wrapped this present for a friend of Allison, and then created this tag by writing her "name" on a piece of paper. She did this all by herself and was very proud of it. So was I. I love seeing the prewriting stuff coming out in my kids. She really has a good grasp of some fundamental print concepts! Left to right, all the letters in a line, and most of those marks are actual letters. And she has received no instruction at all, this is just natural print development in action folks. Isn’t it cute???