Corwin is spending the morning writing “thank you” letters for the presents he got for his birthday. He’s been good about it – we got started without much whining on his part. There was a crisis while he was working the thank you to Emma. Emma gave him three small presents instead of one big one. This was fine until I tried to get Corwin to use proper grammar – “this, that and those”. Corwin did not like the comma. He wanted to say “this and that and those”. I tried explain the proper construction of multi-item lists to him but he just said “I don’t get it – I can’t understand”. I gave up trying to install proper sentence construction once his eyes teared up and his lip started quivering. He’s doing well with reading and spelling so I suppose grammar can wait for a few months. But once he’s in first grade …