Love Notes

Occasionally, I put little notes to my boys in their lunches, a little drawing, a note about how I love them or that I think they'll do great that day.

Tonight I found one of those notes in Daigoro's lunchbag.

On it, I had written. "I love you! - Daddy".

He had written back, in his still developing but very cute handwriting, "I love you too."

BAD: Potty Humour - GOOD: Writing Down What He Wants

BAD

Kenshin is appending "poop" or the adjective "poopy" to everything. He thinks this is hilarious.

We tell him that "potty words" are not acceptable and punish him (verbal chastisment, corner, room, in that order) but it only seems to encourage him.

I'm thinking it's some manner of attention-getting thing and it's annoying because he definitely knows better. I'm mostly embarrassed that he might be influencing other kids at school or in daycare.

GOOD

Marli was surprised by Kenshin walking up to her and giving her his light up sketch-pad, on which he had written:

Watch
Mom
I
want to
TV
please

The words were a little misshapen, but quite legible. Marli was so impressed that she went to get the camera to record the "sentence" but by the time she returned with the camera he had erased it.

This isn't a communications breakthrough - he can ask for things quite clearly (and does, frequently) already, but it's pretty amazing, all things considered. There was much hugging and positive reinforcement. At least until he abruptly erased the words.

Oh well, next time.