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The felt jackelope from this shop was featured on the etsy homepage today. I clicked through to see what other things the owner makes and the feltidermy cracked me up. Particularly the Loch Ness Monster. Very cute and clever.

Henry and I have been working on his writing skills the last few days. Believe it or not, he actually has writing skills. His teacher expressed concern that he wasn't holding crayons or pencils correctly and was very reluctant to heed her attempts to show him the proper way. So yesterday I sat down with him and told him he was going to learn how to write his name. He said "Okay." He grabbed a crayon, held it in his fist, when I asked him if he was holding it right he looked, said "No", corrected how he was doing it, drew an H, then an E, then asked me to remind him what an N, R, and Y looks like, then he drew those. It blew my mind. I had no idea. It was even pretty legible. So. There you have it. Today we worked on the word "big". Tomorrow we'll write "fish". On Thursday we'll put them all together: Henry Big Fish. Did I mention he graduated from "Henry Little Fish" to "Big Fish" about a month after he turned four? My fish is growing up.