Thank You

As a parent you do your best to teach your children good manners. You remind them to say "Thank You", "Please", "Excuse me", etc...sometimes it feels like a zillion million times in one day. You wonder (especially on one of those zillion million days) if a time will arrive when your reminders will stop...unlikely I suppose...but there's sure to be a day when the reminders will be fewer and far between.

So...on to our good news...we had a breakthrough. A few days ago, Jaydon said his first unprompted "thank you" (that I'm aware of) for something Brian did. I can't remember what Brian did for him, but that's the least important detail in this story. Jay's "Thank You" was very sincere. Then he said it again for something else. Hurray!

Now, he says "thank you" at the appropriate time a lot of the time, and he says thank you for some of the littlest things. It feels so good to hear "thank you" from him or to hear him say "thank you" to others. And I love it when he preceeds the "thank you" with an "oh". He does this a lot. He'll ask you for something or ask you to do something and when you say "yes" or do it, he'll reply with "oh, thank you".