Mommy, how do you write...

As the summer heat wave continues to take its toll on us all my sweet Ethan continues to beg to play outside. This morning when he asked could we sit outside and watch the garbage truck go by I decided that at 8:00 in the morning it would be cool enough to do this. As we sat there waiting Ethan asked if he could draw with side walk chalk. Since it was still somewhat cool we got out the chalk and Ethan began to write and draw. First he started with his name. Then he said, "I am going to write Ella's name now." As I watched his chubby little hand make the giant letters Ella on the side walk I was so proud of him. After he wrote Ella's name he decided he wanted to write his last name. He said, "Mommy, you spell Tomko, T-o-m-k-o, but how do you write it?" So I walked him through the letters. Then he decided he wanted to write everyone's name he could think of. "Mommy, how do you write mommy, daddy, Noonie, Granny C, Grandpa, Frank, Micah, Tracie, and on and on and on he went down the sidewalk. Our sidewalk is the prettiest sidewalk I have ever seen. It is covered in the cutest and largest letters that only a three year old boy could create. It is colored in shades of blue, purple, and pink letters of the names of all the people Ethan loves. The teacher in me smiled and the mommy in me teared up a little as my sweet boy became a writer today.