My Glimpse at a Teen

Trevor and I charish the time we spend together in the car. We get to talk, eat, laugh and fight while we're in the car for about 2 hours each day. This weekend daddy was driving, so mom got to help Trevor practice is letters and spelling. He wrote "Trevor", "Cody", "Jenni", then he had an idea...I could tell his wheels were turning, but I wasn't sure what he was thinking. He started by saying "mom...how do you spell..." "mom...are you gonna laugh at me when I ask you this?" I smiled and said, "of course not". He paused for a few moments and said "well, I was wondering how to spell...could you tell me how to spell....ILOVEASHYLNN!" There were no spaces between the words as they were blurted out of his mouth. He stared at me with these eyes of anticipation. I glanced at Cody to see if he had heard these words that came out of our nearly 5 year olds mouth. He had, but I could tell he was trying very hard not to laugh. I slowly told him each letter and helped his space his words. When he was finished, he folded the piece of paper and put it in his pocket. I was happy that he hadn't felt too embarressed to ask me how to spell such a scary sentence and it made me feel good that he trusted me:)