Gracie......

...... A name, it is simple, only six letters long and it belongs to my three year old daughter.

Of course she knows it is her name, she can even recognise it when she sees it on a bit of paper, in a book or on a name tag but she isn't so clued up on the alphabet and writing just yet.

However watching her older sister's all of the time, my little Gracie decided she wanted to write her own name oh and write a letter to santa but lets take this one step at a time.

Now I have always found it some what difficult teaching my children how to write because they are all right handed when it comes to holding a pen or a pencil, I am the opposite and I left handed, so it must be slightly confusing for them watching me forming letters on a piece of paper and then trying to copy what I have done.

Just look at the concentration on that face, I'm surprised her tongue didn't start sticking out part way through.

My darling three year old is different to her older sister's in the sense that she hasn't got the concentration span that they had and she hasn't got a great deal of patience, so if things don't go how she wants them to first time, nine times out of ten she gives up almost instantly.

I was therefore extremely pleased when she stuck with it for over fifteen minutes and the outcome, I think is amazing for a first effort, although I am more than a bit biased being her mummy :)

When did your children start wanting to write things??

xxxx