(Please excuse the phone photo.)
I hope she never catches wind of this post. But, growing up in the home in which we live, my daughter (who turns three in April) has a serious affection for all things stationery. And this has been very useful, over the past few months, for potty training bribes. Here she is, with a Field Notes (before she “earned” the matching yellow pencil) and the Blackwing stub I had in my pocket as we enjoyed the sun on the back deck of one of our favorite local coffeeshops.
Thanks for sharing this photo and story. What is so striking to me is, for a child her age, how she holds the pencil.
She was never that good with gripping crayons, even the triangular kind. As soon as I gave her some pencils around when she turned two, she just got it! (Score one for pencils!)