Writing On His Own

Since school started, Liam's class has kept "journals" in which they write....who knows what. The idea is that they would start out mostly drawing pictures, but that before long they would include words that they know, and progress to sentences. He is just getting into the whole reading/spelling thing right now, but he has started to try and sound out words enough to spell things. Yesterday he brought home an assignment that had a page with this typed at the top:

"If I had a magic pebble I would...." and he was supposed to complete the sentence all on his own.

This is what he came up with:

"I Not B UFrad UF N E (and something not distinguishable at the end)"

All the letters were run together so at first I just scratched my head. Then he told me it says "I would not be afraid of anything."

SO cute. I love the answer to the question, for one thing. And then the writing...I think he has already mastered the language of Text Messaging!! In fact...it makes me wonder if young people these days are someday only going to write this way, because that is all they need to know to text. But aside from that...I was so proud of his effort. I will definitely keep this page to show him in 30 yrs.

And where is MY MAGIC PEBBLE???