IMPORTANT- YOUR KIDS SHOULD KNOW THEIR PHONE NUMBERS!

MAKE SURE YOU TEACH YOUR KIDS THEIR PHONE NUMBERS IMMEDIATELY!...

..... Because they will need them when they get to kindergarten and girls start asking for their digits. Yep. That's right. The love story of Conner and Ella continues. The phone rings today. Caller ID says it is a local number. I pick up. I hear a little voice ask, "Is Conner there?" I say, "Yes, may I tell him who is calling?" I am not at all surprised to hear, "This is Ella."

So, I give the phone to Conner and about 5 minutes later (five minutes is not long when it is in terms of things like the movie will be over in five minutes. School starts in five minutes, etc. But when used in terms of two six year olds talking on the phone- that is really a long conversation...)

Conner doesn't say much, I just hear the high-pitched sound of a little voice through the phone. I can't make out what she is saying but she seems to be saying a lot. But, when Conner hangs up the phone and I ask him what they talked about he says, "Nothing." Yeah, right. The only thing that I was able to get out of him was that she invited him to come over to her house.

It turns out that Ella asked him for his number during "Free Play" time today at school. Good thing I spent so long last year making sure he knew his number and all the possible reasons he may need to use it. I am pretty sure I never mentioned he would need it to give to girls...

Meeting Ella in Person

So, on Thursday I volunteered in Conner's class. His great teach asked me to take kids one at a time into the hall and read with them. Fun. I get to gauge my son's smartness quotient in comparrison to his classmates, AND I get to spend three minutes one-on-one with the infamous Ella. I didn't say anything to her about Conner. I just did my little volunteer job and sounded out words with her. One of the words in the book we were reading was POT. I wanted to make sure she understood what a POT was so I told her that I cook spaghetti all the time in a pot. She paused and then she asked me if Conner likes spaghetti. I told her that it is his all-time favorite food (it truly is). She told me it was her favorite as well. I then told her that Conner could probably each three giant plates of spaghetti because he loves it so much. She told me that she can too (of course). After a couple of seconds Ella said to me, "It sounds like Conner and I have a lot in common." Well, Ella, if favorite foods is a basis for true love in kindergarten, then you do have a lot in common.

And the Response...

So, Ben and I played it pretty cool with Conner and his whole "Love Note" thing. Though you can rest assured that in private we laughed a whole lot... Anyway, we didn't really suggest to Conner that he respond in any way, but this morning at breakfast he says (in a really cool voice that suggested he had practiced this conversation), "Well, I guess I should write a letter back to Ella, huh? That would be the right thing to do, right?" Well, Romeo, I guess it is the right thing to do. So, this is the note that Conner wrote and took to school this morning for Ella. When I asked him after school how it went, he said fine and that he played with her before school. The best thing in all of this is that I am volunteering in his class tomorrow morning and I will get to see first hand what is really going on here... Stay tuned for my social observations...

Please note: Conner wrote this himself. I think that Ella must have an older sister helping her along...

Love Notes In Kindergarten

When I was clearing out all of Conner's daily school papers from his backpack today I found the following note folded up very small. Conner didn't know he had it, so I am assuming that the author of the note (ELLA) put it in there in secret. Ben and I found it very humorous. Our favorite part is the heart at the top of the page that has stick figures of a little boy and a little girl in it. What in the heck are we supposed to do with a son who gets love notes in Kindergarten?