'Nuff Said

OK. I lied. I've got more to say. Yes, Little Dudely climbs door frames, leaps off the couch (no not the ledge behind the couch) and takes apart (and reassembles) doorknobs. He also has a great affinity for electronics.

He wakes up before I do, tiptoes downstairs, turns on my computer and sends emails with photo attachments. Mostly to family members, although friends have been known to receive emails too. He reads well, but doesn't spell quite so well:

"Hi Poppa. Do you lick my picker? I love you."

Um, that would be "Do you like my picture?" Of course, the picture in question wasn't even one he took... And he does take pictures. Actually, I love his pictures. They are from a wonderfully different perspective. Looking up, or just across the table, or of himself. The world from the eyes of a young child. For the record, he's now 5.

His lack of spelling prowess doesn't slow him down, last February he sent this one:

"hi poppa I sooa orins bllt lat niet"

Translation: "Hi Poppa. I saw Orion's Belt last night."

He also likes to send text messages on cell phones. I learned that last spring when I got a message on mine saying I had nearly used up my allotment for the month. I don't send text messages. We figured out he had been up early sending messages back and forth between my cell phone and my husband's. We had a little talk about that one.

Then there's the time he set the password on my new cellphone and locked it. I discovered this as I rushed off somewhere with Dee Dee. Uh... let's just say that I wasn't calm and collected. Funny thing was, in the middle of my tirade I realized what a great story this would be once I calmed down and unlocked my phone.

Just the week before I had made a Beatles mix CD for Pookie. That was all I had in the car, and that was just what I needed. "Let It Be" and "All You Need is Love" went a long way in my desperate attempt to calm down.

Of course when I reached a land-line, I learned that he had promptly forgotten the password. All 8 digits of it. 100,000,000 combinations. That's when I learned about PUK codes and SIM cards and met a nice guy at the IM help desk. And then set my own combination (that I won't forget) to keep him off my phone.