You know your sons are completely different from each other when...
Daddy scored an awesome find while cleaning up at work -- a big roll (like, 4 feet wide) of decades-old white drafting paper. Of course we rolled out a big table-sized chunk of it on the floor and colored to our hearts content. My original idea was to trace their bodies and have them color themselves, but Jake wouldn't sit still for such a thing. In fact, Jake would sit quite still, but not to color. While Isaac moved all around the paper creating yet another elaborately constructed masterpiece, Jacob busied himself emptying our cardboard box of crayons. Not to make a mess, no. He did it to use pencils to poke holes through the box so that he could thread Isaac's shoelaces through them in the most complicated pattern.
I get it now. Both of my boys are so ridiculously creative, but in radically different ways. Isaac is a dreamer, a storyteller, an artist. He wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up. Jacob is the consummate craftsman, builder. He wants to hold things for awhile, then figure out how to take them apart. The first thing he does carry them around, asking why we can't break things apart and then put them back together. He wants to be a mechanic when he grows up.
It occurs to me that Jake's 3rd birthday is going to be so easy. For the gift-giving set, my ideas ... He has lots of tools, but not many that actually do real things. I think he would go stark raving crazy over Automoblox, fat wooden cars that you can take apart, rearrange, put back together. He would also love one of those plastic turny-gear sets. He always wants to play with his Hot Wheels stunt tracks and monster trucks. He likes to be active; he loves the outdoors and is into sporty things. He carries his new scooter around with him at all times, and when he lets go of it, he likes wrestling with his new punching bag. He loves to read almost any preschoolish book, and is already bored with the simplest ones. I also think he would enjoy a Build-A-Bear gift card, as he is very into his stuffed animals right now.
And Aunt Jean, he is so ready for his monogrammed backpack.
I get it now. Both of my boys are so ridiculously creative, but in radically different ways. Isaac is a dreamer, a storyteller, an artist. He wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up. Jacob is the consummate craftsman, builder. He wants to hold things for awhile, then figure out how to take them apart. The first thing he does carry them around, asking why we can't break things apart and then put them back together. He wants to be a mechanic when he grows up.
It occurs to me that Jake's 3rd birthday is going to be so easy. For the gift-giving set, my ideas ... He has lots of tools, but not many that actually do real things. I think he would go stark raving crazy over Automoblox, fat wooden cars that you can take apart, rearrange, put back together. He would also love one of those plastic turny-gear sets. He always wants to play with his Hot Wheels stunt tracks and monster trucks. He likes to be active; he loves the outdoors and is into sporty things. He carries his new scooter around with him at all times, and when he lets go of it, he likes wrestling with his new punching bag. He loves to read almost any preschoolish book, and is already bored with the simplest ones. I also think he would enjoy a Build-A-Bear gift card, as he is very into his stuffed animals right now.
And Aunt Jean, he is so ready for his monogrammed backpack.
posted by Claire at 3:05 PM
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Already in a shopping cart waiting to be purchased....what's his favorite color? :)
Still yellow. I have looked EVERYWHERE to find a yellow one and come up with nothing. I guess...pick a color you think he'd like?
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