Fruit Inspection

When Savannah is frustrated with someone or something, she will sigh heavily, lower her voice, and with disgust say “Ohhhhh (fill in blank with person or item causing such distress in her life)!”

For example, if Emery is bothering her, she’ll say “Ohhhh Emery”. Or more accurately, “Ohhh Emmm-rrrrr-eeeee!!!” Adding multiple syllables to the pronunciation of his name. Or if she spills her milk, “Ohhhh, milk.” And if she doesn’t know who exactly to blame for her predicament, she’ll just exclaim, “Ohhhhh, man.”

Today I was going over the lower case letters d, b, and a. We were working on identifying objects that began with those letters and then writing them in the space below. She was doing really well, but at one point got stuck on writing a word that began with “da”. She wrote the “d”, but for some reason got a mental block on the “a” and kept writing a “b”. Only with a shorter line, so it was more like a backwards “a”.

I kinda got tickled and we started laughing about it together. Then it got even worse and she really couldn’t get it right. Kinda like when you know the spelling of a word, but once you write it, it looks funny, and you second guess yourself. She just could not focus and write the letter “a”.

After a while though, she did start to get frustrated. I don’t know how many times she wrote it wrong, but finally she looked intently at the picture of a large concrete wall in the middle of a lake and said, “Ohhhhh dam.”