Before he went to Texas, I tried to get my youngest son to write some thank you notes for his birthday presents.

All seemed to be going well, until he ran into a question.

“Dad,” he asked me. “I know XOXO is kisses and hugs, but which is which?”

“The Xs are kisses,” I said.

“I don’t like kisses,” he said. “So I think I’ll just write the O’s.”

“Just the O’s?”

“Yeah. Because I don’t like kisses.”

“Um,” I said. “Won’t it just look like Oooh?”

He thought about that, and then started laughing. “Oooo!” he said. “That’s even better!”