Gaze and the Magic Whiteboard

Breaking news: I bought a new whiteboard recently. I put it on the fridge, so we can use it to write notes to each other, because some of us are developing teenager schedules and are not here all the time.

First, it looked something like this, complete with two round magnets and a black pen:

After Gaze saw it, it looked like this:

I said it was cheerful.

The next morning, when I saw it, it looked like this:

I rolled my eyes.  West Virginia jokes being a common form of humor in this place, I’ve heard a lot of them.  (My favorite:  Why don’t West Virginians eat a lot of M&Ms?  Too hard to peel.)

Shortly after he got home from school that day, the whiteboard looked like this:

I laughed. “Very clever,” I said.

And the next day, it looked like this:
And then, this:                                                           And this:

 

 

 

 

And now, this:

I have the uncomfortable feeling that I may have created a monster. (A really funny one. But still.)