bubble letters

This brought a smile to my face this afternoon as I went through Ethan's binder from school.  This is the first time I've seen him be creative with his lettering.  I remember Elliott wanted to write in bubble letters all.the.time. in first grade.  I remember his teacher mentioning to us that we really needed to encourage him to use bubble letters sparingly since it was causing him to slow down in getting his work done.  It must have been a fleeting phase since he didn't have the desire to bubble letter every single thing in 2nd grade, so I had kind of forgotten about it. 

So this brought back a lot of memories this afternoon, and also made me excited that Ethan was being creative on his own.  I doubt that he remembers Elliott's bubble letters phase, so he either came up with this on his own or saw it on a friend's paper.  I miss the days when they both wanted to sit with me and create things.  They still do every once in a while.  Sometimes when I'm in the office they even come up to me and ask if they can make something with the paper on my desk (gladly since I never use it to scrapbook anymore).  But they much prefer playing catch or soccer or riding bikes or playing a video game or Legos.  I guess they're just creative in different ways now - building Lego creations, writing books, creating an entire scenario with Imaginext.  I just miss the construction paper and paint days :(