Secret Crush

The other day Jackson came up to me and told me he “has a secret crush on a girl in his class named Daylin.” While I already knew this (he told me before), the fact that he brought it up again a couple weeks later meant that this crush is a real one. Randy gives me a hard time about how I talk to the boys and get them excited for their crushes, but I think it is adorable. As he and I talked about his crush he told me he wanted to buy her a present, more specifically a necklace. I about died. How cute is that? I wasn’t sure how serious he was about it, but sure enough he kept bringing up going shopping for a necklace over and over again so I knew we were not avoiding it. We were out at Target and he wanted to search for one there. As we looked there wasn’t a huge selection but a pink and silver star bracelet caught his eye and that is what he wanted to get her. Jackson really is a romantic and I honestly did not think that buying jewelry and gifts for girls would start his young, but here we are. As we got ready for bed last night we picked out his clothes and he told me he wanted a “handsome shirt” because he would be giving the bracelet to Daylin and wanted to look good. I couldn’t resist, so we picked out a button up shirt and he went to bed. At school we ran into Daylin right away and Jackson was so excited. She was a ways in front of him so he ran her down, some words were exchanged (he says he doesn’t remember what he said), and she accepted his bracelet and put her it in her backpack. Jackson smirked a little and ran to the playground to play and Daylin went off with her friends. Oh how I wanted to hear what he and she said. I cannot get over Jackson buying his first girl some jewelry. Young love is so cute and innocent. I am not sure what Jackson thinks having a crush really means, but he is off to a good start at winning her over by buying her jewelry. I also do not know her parents and am very curious to know what they will think when their five year old comes home with a bracelet given to her by a boy in her class.