The Boy has become interested in ciphers and codes. They learned about them in school this week and so he wants to learn about more of them. Tonight, he and I were writing things back and forth in pig pen cipher:

It’s a simple replacement cipher, but the Boy loves it.

During our evening walk, I mentioned to him that Papa knew a real code: Morse Code.

“Really?!”

I thought Papa had mentioned that so many times, doing his “da-dit-dit” routine to spell various words out in code, that no one could have forgotten about that. Apparently, E had.

“I wish Papa was still here.”

We’ll be having those moments for some time to come, I think.