Jude is 9 and has no interest in girls.  A girl to him is just a long-haired boy.  I’d like to keep it that way.  That’s why I was surprised when I learned that Jude had left a note in the 8 year old neighbor girl’s mailbox asking her to marry him.  The note reads “WLL You MrrY me  from juDe to BeLL.”
It turns out little Levi, now 6, wrote the note and delivered it to the mailbox to be funny. Â Poor Jude didn’t even want to go back outside to play with his friend Belle after the incident. Â I think Belle was pretty relieved when she learned that Levi had written the note and it was just a prank.