Confident Fella, Ain't He?

Tonight after supper the kids and I went over to my friends place for some coffee and a backyard play date. The boys had a riot enjoying the outdoors without having to have 18 layers of clothing on. I think I can safely say that spring is finally here!

While the boys were outside the Mom was making her sons lunch for school the next morning. She jotted out a note on some cute kid paper and popped it into his lunch bag. She said he looks for it every day and she writes him one, every day. Cute.

Once we were home having our before bed snack I asked Joseph if he'd be interested in getting notes in his lunch reminding him of how much I love him. He declined. I left it at that. A few minutes later he says "Mom, I know you love me. I don't need a reminder."

I guess I will take that as our job being done well that Joseph knows day in and day out that he is loved by Big Daddy and I. No reminder necessary. Now, if we could just instill post-potty hand washing without a reminder.

Just another side note. Poor Joseph has an ear infection. Sunday he stuck his finger in his ear and said "It hurts when I do this". Well of course my response was "well, don't do that then" Simple enough. I guess not as later that evening it was clear that an ear infection had set in and the pain was too much for him. So off to the medi-clinic we headed and sure enough ear infection.

Today after being on antibiotics for a full 24 hours I asked Joseph how his ear was. It is feeling better. However, invisible Joseph has been in bed all day watching TV and puking into a bucket. Thankfully for me, it is an invisible bucket and invisible barf. That, I can handle.