Drawing hands

I've mentioned before that every now and then we get a look at the words we speak when we discover Ellie acting just like us.

At dinner, Ellie was coloring on her menu. She had requested that Daddy put his hand down for her to trace. After making a mark for each finger (not exactly going around the entire finger), she told him to lift his hand so that she could see. The result was five seemingly-randomly placed lines that resembled almost but not quite the exact opposite of a hand. "Good job, Daddy!" says Ellie, "Good job!"