Recently JR and I got a babysitter and went out. We went to shoot some pool and I lost terribly. While we were out, B called me on the phone and wanted to know "where my stickers were that I put on letters. Not the stickers with the tennis balls and my name but the ones with the flag." Ahhhh.....stamps. I asked why he wanted to know and he told me he had written a letter. Curious, but told him where they were. When I came home he showed me the letters. He had written two of them, one to Mr. Smith his principal and one to a teacher's aid. It melted my heart that he, unprompted, wanted to write a letter. Here is his letter.

Translation - Mr. Smith, I know how much you like being our principal and I know I like you being my principal. Your Friend. Then he wrote gobble gobble down by the turkey. I saw Mr. Smith the next day and the first thing he told me was how much he appreciated the letter and how it made his day. He has it on his bulletin board! It provided a great opportunity for me to tell B how much his words meant to Mr. Smith and how much he blessed him that day. I encouraged him to continue writing letters and looking for ways to bless and encourage others.

Speaking of B, the other morning he just could not focus long enough to get dressed for school. So my precious little boy had to go to school in his Star Wars pajama bottoms. If I could have gotten away with it, he would have gone barefoot but I knew that was not permissible. Hopefully going forward mornings will be more focused!

JB got approved for speech three times a week! Yeah. We also saw the opthomalogist today. JB was not very cooperative, which is some what normal at that age. It made it hard because he could not look at a picture and tell us what he saw. She was able to get him to track, but not for very long. His eyes move in all directions but she struggled with his visual attentiveness. She said he is showing a possible correction (need for glasses) but wants to do some more testing and dialate his eyes. She said his visual attentiveness could be from needing a correction (he can't clearly see things so he quickly loses interest) or just the day. I asked her if there could be another issue that causes poor attentiveness, and I honestly can't remember what she said but she did say something. She said from the stand point of the health of the eye, it looks good from what she could see, but we will explore everything at our next appointment in 2 weeks. So no huge red flags at this point, but she also just seemed to think that there are possibly some very subtle things that are adding up to something more (not necessarily a serious 'more').

A quiet weekend. I might get the opportunity to redeem myself with some more pool. Otherwise, bundling up for a good chance of snow.