Vacation Journal

This summer, Madeleine has enjoyed continuing the Weekend Journal she worked on during the preschool year.  Most Mondays, she "kindergarten-spells" a little synopsis of something fun she did over the weekend.

Because we had been on vacation last week, I suggested to Madeleine that rather than a one-page synopsis in her school journal, she could make her own vacation journal and we could staple it all together when she's finished.

I figured she might include things like going to the amusement park, visiting the Botannical Gardens, and going to the Biodome. 

Instead, it looks like Madeleine is more interested in a step-by-step narrative of every thing we did on the trip, even the most mundane of things. 

Here is what she has so far:

"WEE WETO MONTREEOLU AUDU WEE WET OUT TO DINRR."

It is true that among the first things we did was go out to dinner.  This is a very factual account of our vacation so far.
Featured in the picture are our Kia Soul, not to be mistaken for the black widow spider which it resembles, and our dinner table with Madeleine's bowl of linguini on it.

"THEN WEE WET TO BED.  TENN WEE IN THE MORNING WEE WENN TO BREKFIST."

This is an exciting account of our vacation, folks.  We ate dinner, we went to bed, we ate brekfist...stay tuned for more exciting memories! 
I'm not sure what the picture is here.  It kind of looks like some military-grade weapon.  If I had to guess I would say it's a table with Madeleine's pancake on it.  Maybe.

"THENN WEE WET TO THE POOL THENN WEE WENNT BACTU THE HOOTELL."

Finally, we're getting somewhere.  An update about an actual family activity, not about eating or sleeping.  Madeleine drew a picture of the pool water and our hotel, and also got distracted because she could see the Cat in the Hat face of the book upon which she was resting her paper.  So she also decided to trace his face in the middle of her writing space.  He kind of looks like a friendly cloud/ghost floating around up in the sky.
Anyway, I think this is where the vacation story really begins.  Let's see if she picks up the pace from here:

"THENN WEE WET TO DINR UGEN."
Nope.  It's back to eating.  But she does have good recall.  She and Julia did split a pizza on our second night there.

 "THENN WEE WET TO BAD."

This is where she left off before she headed to camp.  So far we are five pages into this vacation journal and we have covered only the first full day of our trip.  This is going to be a long journal, readers.  I suspect we have many more pages about going out to breakfast, dinner, and going to bed ahead of us.  I will keep you posted when there are more super-exciting memories to read about!