From the Desk of Captain Hook

Captain Hook continues to be the character of choice around the house these days. Damon and I started a responsibility chart with Sullivan to work on some key discipline issues. This week he is working on No screaming and yelling at Mommy and Daddy and cleaning up his toys at night. So each day he does this he gets a magnet on his special chart board. And when we began this project we told Sullivan if he was real good and worked on his chart at the end of the week he would get a Captain Hook costume to wear for Halloween. Well he has done very well with the picking up of the toys each night but has fallen a few days short on the no screaming task. And Damon ran into some trouble ordering the costume online so he decided to send Sullivan a letter from Captain Hook explaining the delay and encouraging him to keep up the good work. So when Sullivan woke up from his nap today Damon asked him to go get the mail with him and inside the box was a special delivery envelop addressed to Sullivan with a hook on it. Sullivan was beside himself with excitement and ran into the houseand opened it up and saw a picture of Captain Hook and damon read the letter outloud and Sullivan was nearly in tears with excitement over this. Captain Hook said he would be sending Sullivan his hat and coat if he continued to be a good boy and that he would send messages about it’s arrival soon. Well, the whole night was just a grand celebration of this letter and talking and talking about all the things he was going to do with captain Hook. I had to go out to the grocery store for a short but and when I returned Damon was duct taping a giant cardboard Pirate ship together for the boys to continue their adventures in the back. It was indeed a fun night for all.