What's in a name?

Zach wrote his name by himself for the very first time ever today. I was so excited I called or texted everyone I could think of. I was having a hard time getting him to be able to trace the lines of the letters. Every time he would get mad that he hadn't written exactly on the line and use little scribbles to try and fill in the space between where he wrote and the dotted line. So my mom gave me the idea to rather then have him copy dotted lines to do dots and just let him fill in the lines himself. That way even if his lines are not exactly straight he still can see that he made the letter and is not worried about getting it exactly perfect. It totally worked. I showed him how to do each letter a couple times and then he tried it himself and bam there it was his name. He was pretty excited about it too. Obviously he still needs to learn to do it without the dots but come on, he is three so its pretty good. I am always so proud of him and the way he can learn things so quickly. He is such an amazing kid.