letters to friends

calvin is really into 'writing' letters lately. i have had loads of thank you letters to write lately having just had a baby, and so i let calvin write his 'thank you' letters next to me while i am writing mine. after he does his drawing and writing on each card, he gives them to me and i write down what he says about each one on the cards. i try to write verbatim because what he comes up with to say about each letter is so random and such a two-year-old train of thought.

them he slips them in an envelope, i address them and he gets to put on the stamp. he loves stamps because, to him, they are just special stickers. he loves (i love watching him) carefully put the stamp on each letter and then walk his letters out the mailbox. then he usually asks me if we can go to the person's house we just wrote a letter to and watch them get it and open it.

up goes the flag. i am grateful to have someone who shares my love of mail.

cute aside story... calvin was playing the other day with his wooden food and his lunch box. he had packed the lunch box full of all sorts of food, but among the food was a taco. on the top of his lunch box he has a label that says his name. he looked at the label just as he zipped the food inside and acted like he was reading it. he said, "dear taco, i want to eat you. love, calvin".