Terms of Endearment

Mats has a crush on his music teacher, Seth. We missed a class while we were visiting Grandpa, so this week all the motivation Mats needed to get dressed after his nap* was the promise of going to music class and seeing Seth. When we arrived, he ran into the class area. And instead of running up to Seth and giving him a hug like a little girl might do, Mats started jumping as high as he could, spinning around, and standing on his head. Because that's how you show someone you like them, right?

I think we are going to have to do some coaching before Mats is ready to ask a girl or boy out on a date.

We might be working in the right direction. Mats did manage to tell Grandma over the phone that he loves her (a first). And he told me in person the other day. Of course my heart melted. It's only a matter of time before he realizes he can wreck the car and set fire to the house as long as he tells me he loves me, I'll forgive him.


*note: one of Mats' newest attempts at not napping, involves taking off all his clothes, throwing them overboard, and then jumping up and down in his crib while screaming like a maniac. He is also particularly adverse to having said clothes put back on after naptime, preferring instead to run around (in his words) "naky naky". Sigh