You Just Can't Make This Kind of Cuteness Up
Eli was given a special homework assignment in honor of his upcoming birthday celebration: he had to create an "All About Me" poster that will be hung up in his classroom. It has space for some pictures of "me" and "my family" (which he helped me pick out and print), and spaces in which to write or draw some of his favorite or not so favorite things. I sat him down to start doing the drawing and writing while I gave Isaac a bath--by the time I got back to Eli he was nearly finished. And when he showed me what he'd done, I nearly died of cute overload--so much so that I am now preserving it for posterity, phonetic spellings and all. It's not the same without a visual of the illustrations or the wandery pencil script with frequent erasings (perhaps I'll get that in the morning, perhaps I won't), but for now here is the best description/transcription I can do on the fly.
My name is: Eli.
I am 6 years old.
I was born on 2001 feb 17
I was born in: GreenBraAe, CA
3 Wishes
I wish I cuD Hav $10000 (translation: "I wish I could have a million dollars." To which I replied, "me too, kid.")
And I wish I cuD go DaY EVRY To Scooll (translation: "and I wish I could go every day to school". No, I don't know where this came from. I swear I had nothing to do with it.)
And I wish ThaR Was No MoSTR's in The wrlD I Wish I CuD macK Fres evry Day (translation: "and I wish there was no monsters in the world. I wish I could make friends every day.")
When I grow up I want to be: a JeDi (Well, of course. And you should see the incredibly cute picture that accompanied this, of a big stick figure with a glowy lightsaber standing next to a littler stick figure with a pointy head and red lightsaber.)
My favorite things:
ShabBot. ("Shabbat." Really? I said. Really, he said.)
Pliaying suPris with my bruthr ("Playing 'Surprise' with my brother", a game in which they hide behind things and jump out and chase each other while yelling "surprise!")
Str Wars ("Star Wars")
10ticiis ("10 tickets"--i.e. when they get 10 "good behavior" tickets in school and get a prize of 5 minutes of free play)
gowing to mi cusis Hous! ("going to my cousin's house")
Things I don’t like (all of these were illustrated):
Stoms ("storms" This was a new one to me.)
Hosis onn FiRe ("houses on fire")
BlAK WiDose! ("black widows!")
ScaRy Theegs ("scary things"--this was illustrated by a "fire guy" saying "WA HA HA", a ghost saying "Boo!!" and some other monstery looking things)
VechDbls (can you guess? Sound it out--that's right, "vegetables")
I mean seriously, people. So cute you could die. And now preserved in bloggish amber for all eternity.
Edited to add:
And for what it's worth, here's the picture, don't know if you can actually see the cuteness too well:

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