You're my favorite crayon!

I love making my son laugh-  I could spend hours thinking of silly and dumb things to make him laugh.  It gives me a natural high.  Luckily- I don't have to spend hours thinking of stuff cause most of the time it just comes to me naturally.  With him starting school- I have been missing him a lot and feeling extra sappy.

During our normal bedtime routine- he does the pajamas thing, then the bathroom thing, then we lay down together and I put on soft music and tell him how much I love him.  But how do you know a five year old gets it?  Does he know I would lay down on the train tracks with a train coming full speed if he needed me to?  So during this little goodnight talk I'm telling him how God made him just perfect for us,  how I always wanted a little boy just like him, how he makes me so happy, how important and precious he is to us and how I just love being his mommy.  That's all the usual stuff but then- I decide to take it a bit further.   I said "do you know what important and precious means?"  He said "what?" I said " it's like when you got the new box of crayons, and they were all so clean and sharp and they all looked good but there was one that was the best- the favorite, probably a blue one- the one you wouldn't want to get broken or lost" ...

(Now there's a side story here I had forgotten about until I brought up the crayons.  Our dog Divot has eaten TWO full boxes of 64 crayons- the new ones that I posted about earlier- yep, those and the replacements- are gone.  The dog ate them and then spent two days whining at the door to go out and deposit rainbow colored poop in the yard - so then our conversation took a weird, twisted sense of humor turn.)

"I said- your the crayon I wouldn't let the dog eat and poop out in the front yard!  I would keep you safe and away from the dog."  We both just started laughing and trying to catch our breath.  I said "that was a bit over the top wasn't it?"  he says "yeah mom, the crayon poop thing was a little over the top"

So lately when I pick him up and hug  him, I tell him he's my favorite crayon and we both smile.

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[Wendy in MD]

"So lately when I pick him up and hug him, I tell him he's my favorite crayon and we both smile."

That is just too sweet.