Yesterday, as I was picking up Noah from school, his friend Sam was trying to give him a paper and he was refusing to take it. Sam threw the paper on the ground and walked away, so Noah finally picked it up. As we were walking to the car I asked him about the paper and he gave it to me. It was a letter that he had written and given to Sam, and then Sam was giving it back. Here's the text of the letter, including his spelling:
"Dear Sam,
You should be nice to evrewon (everyone). It would be nice to stop fighting Sam. You're mean to evrewon okay. You should be nice to Jalen, Josh, Kaidin, and me. We are all children of are parentes we should lisin and obay. Sam, Dr. Marten Lothe King Jr. said, We shoulde'nt figt with hands We shou fight with words. he said, to all of us. Sam you neve now whos wachen you boy you are in jail. lesen to me okay sam. You're hungrey arent you Sam. I know youre hungrey Sam okay.
Sincerly,
Steve Nash=
Noah"
So I was dying. My first grader wrote a letter telling another kid to be nice and quoted Dr. King!!! Where does he get it? And I thought it was going to say, "We are all children of God" but instead "children of our parents"! And what the heck is up with the hungry part at the end? (By the way, Noah LOVES Steve Nash and always calls himself Steve Nash.) For the record, Sam is actually a pretty good kid, although I think he's a little bit physically aggressive. Noah said he wrote the letter on Sunday when I made the kids go in their beds and take a quiet time after stake conference. Aside from the letter being completely hilarious, I am really proud of him for standing up for himself. This letter is definitely going to be saved, and I now consider it a family treasure. I'm just glad that Sam gave it back so I could have it.
This morning, Kendall was sitting on my lap at the desk and she sliced the letter with my paper cutter into about five different pieces. After freaking out I found all the pieces and put them back together. I am going to put it away now so nothing happens to it.
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This is theee best thing I have ever read! I hope my boys turn out this FABULOUS!! You must've really been pounding the MLK story in for FHEs his year huh!?!? I always LOVED Noah...even when he was little and we first moved out here! What a sweetheart!!
You need to send that to Reader's Digest! He will win some kind of award for that one.
I laughed my butt off and then read it to James and he was laughing HIS butt off. I love it and agree with Erna!!! You need to copy and paste your ENTIRE post and send it to reader's digest. Your kids are a direct reflection of YOU. Just like you sound sooo much like your mom. AWESOME
Seriously, that is the cutest thing ever! I'm glad you got to see, and ever happier for you that you get to keep it.
I guess I better start being nice to Noah.
Noah is the best!!! You all should hear him pray, it is awesome. He is a real deep thinker!!!
He must be your son!!!
That letter left me audibly cracking up! Sweet and funny all at the same time. Good for him! About the hungry part...do you get crabby when you are hungry? :) Maybe he figured Sam needed a snack to take the edge off.
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