Fat Period

A conversation with Griffin after his T-ball game. I am the "M" (mom), "G" is Griffin:

G: we got new journals today

M: really

G: everybody in class was just writing whatever they wanted in them

M: oh

G: Ms. Nho didn't like that

M: why

G: she wanted us to only write about Butterflies or Caterpillars

M: is that what you wrote about?

G: yes

M: how did you know how to write the word butterfly

G: I didn't

M: You didn't write the word butterfly?

G: no

M: did you write Caterpillar?

G: no

M: what did you write?

G: ----- (I heard fact; like he wrote a fact down, hmm)

M: You wrote a fact?

G: No!

M: What did you write?

G: Fat

M: Fat?

G: yes, fat

M: is that all you wrote?

G: yes; fat, period.

M: why

G: because I was going to draw a fat butterfly.

That's what's going on in a 5 year old's mind. That's how you write in a journal.