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Doodle’s Low-Tech Twitter

// June 13th, 2008 // Life

My daughter is, like me, more expressive with a pen than with her mouth (contrary to her little brother, whose “vocal expressions” are only interrupted by REM sleep).

Some time back Sunshine hung a small white board near the door to the garage. This being the most public of the 4+ white boards we have in the house, it has become for Doodle the 6-year-old equivalent of a low-tech Twitter.

If you don’t know about Twitter, it’s a social network application/site that allows you to post “status updates” to let subscribers (presumably people you know) see what you’re up to/thinking/feeling at any given moment (Read it’s Wikipedia entry).

I love Tinkerbell

…and…

Happy Birthday Daddy

… have both been seen recently.

When our friends come over to visit, sometimes they’ll see a…

Welcome Coba, Phenah and Bananaface!

It’s also her forum for venting her displeasure with us or frustration.

The mommy won’t let the kid do anything

…or…

Crying is not OK

…accompanied by drawings of a little girl crying, tell us what she sometimes cannot.

…others, like tonights message, are simple and to-the-point…

I’m tired

…which greeted us tonight after an evening in the pool followed by ice cream at Granny and Grandpa’s.

I agree baby. I’m tired too.

She’s prolific with her drawings and tweets on the white board. They’re little windows into her thoughts and sensibilities. They’re easy to glance at and think nothing more of. But these postcards from her day — off-the-cuff dispatches from the play-by-play of her world — are priceless.