He Wrote His First Message

on his own.

Buster wrote U I Lf

I didn't decode the message. It took a college student to recognize the significance.  Vanessa says, "Do you know that this says I love you?"

And I looked and sure enough.

Actually, he had told me that himself, but I didn't look close enough, I guess. He ran out of room so he put the U before the I and Lf was as close phonetically as he could come. Upon reflection I realized he had asked me how to spell you, but I thought he needed to know how to make a U, so I drew it in the air with my finger. He looked at me puzzled but didn't say anything... and went ahead and wrote the u. The L is backwards, too. SO cute! I have letters that the girls wrote like that when they were little.

It's fun to see his mind stretch!