My favorite Christmas gift this year

Parker went to my stash of gift boxes, found one that was just the right size and presented me with a gift.

The gift itself is a drawing...


and he also showed me his mad scissor skills by cutting another drawing into strips and including it too.



What he doesn't realize is there was another gift.

A gift that makes just about anything else I can think of pale in comparison this year.

On his own, no help with the spelling and no help with the writing, he labeled the gift box.



This boy that sometimes (oftentimes) struggles to sit still long enough to write anything...

This boy that many times writes the first letter or two of his own name and then says he's tired and wants to come back to write the rest later...

This boy that does his math with spin breaks in between each problem...

This boy that cannot always get his fingers (or the rest of his body) to do what his brain wants it to do...

This boy that cannot yet read and has only ever written his own name without help...

wrote my name in sharpie on a gift box while I switched laundry.

He couldn't have said "I love you" or "Merry Christmas" in any better way.