budding writer

Sage is learning to write.

We are so proud of her! She's only two and a half years old, and already she can write the letters X and O, and identify several more letters on sight, including S ("for Sage!"), M ("for Mommy!") and D ("for Daddy!"). I bought her one of those books where you can trace letters and wipe them off again. She's pretty good at tracing scraggly As, Gs, Is, Js, and the various permutations of lower-case B (If you spin it around, it's also D and P), but refuses to accept that a single straight vertical line represents L.

"That's not L," she tells me. "L is this one," she says, pointing to capital L.

"Yes, it is," I attempt to explain. "That's the big L. But you can also write it small, like this, just a straight up-and-down line."

"No, Mommy," she says dismissively. And continues to work on her letter Ks instead.

Sage milestones

Sage's first social smile appeared on March 23, 2002, when she was just a little over a month old--about two months earlier than most children!