David

I realize that David often gets left out of my posts.  Completely unintentional, of course.  

It's just that he's at school during the day and when he gets home, 

it's homework time, playtime, dinner time, shower time, reading time, and bedtime.  

The last think I'm thinking about during those times is taking pictures.  

Honestly, I'm still getting used to taking pictures regularly..of any subject.  

For memories sake, I wanted to record of my favorite David stories from this year.  

I got a call from his teacher one evening. 

She wanted to let me know about a little incident that had happened at recess.  

A group of boys were playing, and one of them said a bad word-- the "s" word in fact.  David overheard someone say,

"you shouldn't say the "s" word".  

To which David said, "I'm not allowed to say that word, but I can spell it for you"..which he did.  

The lunch monitor got involved, and the incident was relayed to his teacher.  

After getting off the phone, I went to talk to David.  

Honestly, I didn't think he knew the "s" word.  

I couldn't think of a time where he would've heard it.  

As soon as I said we needed to talk, he was in tears. 

He immediately confessed that he had spelled the "su" word at recess.  

A little confused, I asked him to spell it for me.  

"S.H.U.T. U.P."  

I had to suppress a smile.  

Then I remembered the lunch monitor...

I was pretty sure he had spelled it for her...but when I asked David about it, 

he said, "yeah, she asked me to spell it for her, but after I said S.H.

she said okay, okay, you can stop now." 

Smile.  

May that be the only "s" word you know for a long time, my boy.