Mother's Day

One of my "gifts" for Mother's Day was to be left alone to finish some Sunday-appropriate projects in my "office." Caleb quickly came and joined me and announced he was going to make my Mother's Day present. He went to work on the sign on the right (the only help I gave him was in spelling "from"). I told him I thought it was a lovely present, but he announced that it was only the tag, and then proceeded to tape 3 pieces of paper together (2 large, one smaller) to make (his words) a "Memory Keeper" for me. He even went so far as to wrap it up in a pizza box he found in the recycling bin, and when I opened it, he wrote some letters on a piece of paper for me to put in the Memory Keeper. I loved it.

For my birthday last week, he disappeared into my office just before it was present time. When he emerged, he announced, "I don't think you're going to like this present very much." I asked why, and he held out the gift (several sheets of small notebook papers stapled together) and said, "It's The Book with No Words." Maybe it's one of those things that only a mother could love, but I think it's great. I'm still waiting for the book of poems he says he writing called "Do You Know Poems?" It may be a bit of a wait since he's still trying to figure out if HE knows what poems are.