Carl is writing letters! And, as Scott predicted, our little left-handed writes everything backwards. But if you ignore the backwardness, his handwriting is very clear. This is not something that I encouraged or taught him at all; it's just something that he has seen Soren doing and so he started doing it, too.
I love this picture, which shows a whole page covered with Carl's backwards capitals. Soren was writing a story about his rabbit at the table so Carl sat down and started writing, too. Since Soren was filling the page with letter after letter after letter, Carl did so as well. I was impressed with how long he spent on it since I know that the symbols don't have any meaning to him.
Or, I suppose I should say, they don't have the same meaning to him that they do to the rest of us. Rather than being representations of sounds and words, those symbols are magical ideograms of pure meaning. No wonder he was so intent on his work.
I love this picture, which shows a whole page covered with Carl's backwards capitals. Soren was writing a story about his rabbit at the table so Carl sat down and started writing, too. Since Soren was filling the page with letter after letter after letter, Carl did so as well. I was impressed with how long he spent on it since I know that the symbols don't have any meaning to him.
Or, I suppose I should say, they don't have the same meaning to him that they do to the rest of us. Rather than being representations of sounds and words, those symbols are magical ideograms of pure meaning. No wonder he was so intent on his work.
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love, Nan