Upside Down

Today, Cody brought home the assignment above. His class read "Silly Sally," and they were supposed to draw a picture of themselves, glue it on upside down, and write a little bit about what they were doing.

So there's Cody, upside down, along with a dog (note the tongue sticking out and the wonderfully expressive ears) and a disco ball. Yes, you read that right. Up there in the upper left hand corner is a disco ball. Cody is VERY proud of the disco ball.

The writing reads, "I am upside dawn (down). I mit (met) a dog. We daste (danced) a gige (jig)." So silly, just like Sally! :)

Sally's story isn't all that has Cody feeling upside down these days. I think the boy has his first crush. This is so interesting to me as Jackson seems to look at boys and girls as equal opportunity friends, but doesn't think girls in general are anything special. Cody, on the other hand, has told me he likes to be nice to girls and that several girls in his class want to marry him.

But now...now there's CINDY. Or maybe her name is Sydney. With the way he pronounces and spells things, it's a little hard to be sure. (And Cindy seems like such an old-fashioned name...do people name their kids things like "Cindy" these days?)

I had heard nothing about Cindy (?) until today, when he told me he wanted to make her a present. So first he drew this:

That's Cody and Cindy sitting on top of a rainbow. It also has their names with arrows pointing to the people, and "Love Cindy" and "Frum Cody."

On the back, he wrote this:

There it says, "Love? Sedey." I like how instead of "To:" he writes "Love." 

The he folded it up and had me help him tie it in a bow.

He also made an envelope for the present.

That's the inside of the envelope, and it says, "Heres a presit (present) Sedey." With a smiley face. Aww. 

The outside of the envelope looks like this:

And then he folded the present up inside the envelope and stapled it closed. 

Man, I hope that girl (whatever the heck her name is) knows how lucky she is. Well, who am I kidding, she won't....she's SIX. But I hope she likes the present he made for her. I hope she likes him as much as he likes her. And I hope she doesn't break his gigantic, adorable, precious heart. 

By the way, even when you think you love your kiddos with every fiber of your being, when you think you couldn't be more grateful for the wonder and joy they bring into your life, and when you think you couldn't possibly love them more...you can. See above. 

My cup runneth over. ♥