9/14/2006

The Nature of Obsession


Most mornings these days I am woken up by son's plaintive plea "Cars! Cars. Cars. Cars!" I seek out the two cars from the night before (he falls asleep holding them) and put one in each hand. He pees on his kid potty leaning over to roll the cars on the floor and when he's finished we head upstairs. I pour some milk as he seeks out his favorite vehicles. Today's favorite a green truck. We sit on the rug together and push cars around the floor. He announces each one. "Blue car. Digger. Red truck!" Police cars, ambulances and fire trucks are introduced with a serious look and a siren sound. Eventually he will throw himself on his belly car in each hand pushing them under chairs, over pillows, and around over his own arm totally engrossed. This is my cue to check email, write a blog post, and catch up on the news on my computer. He will gravitate to me ending up under my desk moving cars and trucks round and round my feet waiting for the moment when I'll be done so we can take a walk around the block looking at for more cars.

2 Comments:

matthias said...

wonderful picture! perfect lightning.

and do you think, this car-obsession is a boys-only-thing? my son noah is nearly the same age and he also is on the car tip (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattkucziensky/221850424/). i don't know any girl who is that obsessed.

9/15/2006 08:18:04 AM  
alfr3do said...

My twin 3-year-old boys are also obsessive. One of them is obsessed with King Kong and the other one with dinosaurs.

I have a baby girl now, so I'll compare the nature of obsession and gender when she grows a bit.

9/20/2006 10:39:18 PM  

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