Things I appreciate about the YK

1. His bright, clever smile
2. His quite concentration when he sketches
3. His social nature
4. His sense of presence with small children
5. His ability to lose himself when engaging with small children and animals
6. His love of science
7. His ability to play a kick-ass game of magic
8. How much he loves his brother
9. That he will kiss me goodbye even in public
10. That he will watch cheesy sci-fi movies with me late at night
11. His love of good, good food
12. His adventurous nature, the boy ate salmon roe just to see what it was like
13. His way good hair
14. His ability to hang with adults
15. His capacity to contribute insightfully to conversations
16. His love of science
17. His facility for making money doing something he likes
18. His love of smelly boy stuff
19. His fashion sense
20. His sense of self
21. His fluctuating voice
22. His natural ability with a camera
23. How secure he is with his sexuality and gender
24. the respect he shows his female peers
25. His bravery in telling a girl he likes how he feels
26. His art. He is really really good.
27. His sense of color
28. His ability to be charming
29. His appreciation of simple pleasures, like clean towels
30. His potential
31. His emerging honesty (I hope to foster)
32. His outstanding spinach casadea
33. His love of lentil soup
34. His salad making accumen
35. His sweet big brown eyes
36. That he like to go swimming with me
37. The look on his face when he changes his mind 
38. His love of good strange stories
39. His black sense of humor
40. His silly times when we play poke
41. when he sings outloud in the car with me
42. His love of Christofer Moore books
43. How much he loves watching the making of parts of movies
44. The love of zombies he shares with me
45. how happy he is with a good holloween costume

More to come...