writing skills

Yesterday Rachel was playing around with her cheap-o magnadoodle she got for Easter and pretending to write different things. Then she decided to write "Annie." I was very impressed. I had her recreate it on a piece of paper so I could show Jake when he got home:

She wrote a lower-case A: a circle and a line coming off of it. Yeah, not exactly to the right bottom where it normally goes, but if you rotated it it would be right. She then sounded out Annie's name some more: aaaaaaa nnnnn... and proceeded to write an n. Oops. Her marker didn't stop when she meant to, so she wrote an m. Close enough. She then wrote a capital E. The 3 lines on the E were pretty close and the vertical line went far below the bottom line, so she said, "Oh, it looks like a flag!" And proceeded to add more lines to make it a bigger flag. Anyway, so amE=Annie. Pretty darn good for a 3-year-old. She then wanted to write her own name, but when I suggested she do it on her own since she was so good at it, she refused and told me to write it and she'd trace it.
I was pretty impressed with her writing. We occasionally have "school" where she practices reading a few words, or she does a worksheet from a little preschool workbook I found at Walmart a while back. She used to love it and ask to do school often (which was why we started in the first place). Lately, though she's not a fan of anything to do with school, except for the worksheets that require her to use scizzors, so we haven't done it much lately. But hey, who needs school when you can figure it out on your own? :)