Recently I enjoyed the position of Grandma-in-charge for Jonathan and Noah while the rest of the family spent the day in Pittsburgh. It was loads of fun, but by the end of the day I could identify with Zoe in the Baby Blues comic below.
Jonathan discovered language early, and has been exceedingly verbal ever since. He also shares with his Aunt Janet a vivid imagination and an endless capacity for story-telling. Unlike his aunt, however, his stories have a decidedly Y-chromosome twist.
I showed this comic to D this morning in reference to B.
The other day in the car, T was telling his brother to be quiet in a not very nice way. And yet, I knew where he was coming from. T and I are similar in that we can just ride along lost in our own thoughts. B, on the other hand, just says out loud whatever pops into his mind. His Dad and I tried to explain to him that it is great that he has all these thoughts and questions, but he also needs to recognize that we may not always be receptive to the constant chatter.
He is always posing hypothetical questions. "Mom, if you had to choose between a Ford GT and a Monster truck which one would you choose?" "Dad, even though you don't hunt, which one of these guns would you choose?" "Do you think if we had a truck, we could attach a lawnmower on the back that we could use in our yard?"
I'm just making these up, but you get the idea of what he asks. And it is incessant.
Not that we have done anything with it yet, but I have a notebook labeled "Family Questions". The idea being we can write down some of the questions he has (that actually have answers) and look them up when we are home.
