Signs

My son occasionally exercises his developing skills in writing by making signs, which are often displayed on the projects he builds. They can be disarmingly simple, yet wonderfully complex — he's taken to using pictures and symbols along with words. Writing a still a little new (and often a bit frustrating) to him, so the pictures make it easier for him to get his point across.

There's one taped to the back of the chair in my office ― I forget the reason why, really, but I think I had warned him that I intended to clean up some project he had been working on in the not-too-distant future. So he drew a sign with a very large and emphatic "No", with an arrow pointing to a small drawing of me ― you can tell by the bald head that it's obviously meant to be me ― with a wobbly arm outstretched, about to touch a drawing of whatever it was he didn't want me to touch.

The reason the sign has long since gone, but I've left it up because I like it so much.