Using Our Words

This is not the post I was going to do today. I was going to post some lovely beach pictures from yesterday. But Aaron has a way of distracting me. Let me start with saying how impressed I am that Aaron is learning to read and write in Kindergarten.

This morning he found the portable DVD player. He wanted to watch the video we made of his fish tank for sharing at school. Maybe I will get around to posting that. Anyway, he would not let Lauren watch it with him, so I took it away. Five minutes later, Lauren delivered this to me.


It was good I was sitting in the other room so he could not see my face. I laughed so hard I had tears running down my face. But I kept silent so he would not know I was reacting at all to his picture. Part of me wanted to get really mad, I mean who calls their mom "pop" and then draws a picture of it? But we have been working really hard lately on the correct way to express our emotions. We have been telling hims since he was little that he needs to use his words. I guess that one came back to bite me in the a**. So in light of that, I will look at this as baby steps. At least he did not call me "pop" to my face or tell me he hates me or roar at me. We keep telling him it is OK to be upset. You just have to learn how to express those emotions the right way. There are plenty of adults who have less self control then him, so for today I will chalk this up as progress.