Developmental challenges, for parents
Unexpectedly, he leaps to my defense, “do not be disturb him! Cant you see he is be nit!”
“Yes I can see your mother's knitting…..she's a she remember, not a him.”
“Oh yes, I am beed forgetting dat.” I still find myself tripped up by the correct use of some vocabulary and the complete absence of other parts of speech.
“You can see it beed grow longer, look!” he beams at his father. How we love that joint attention.
“What's all this business with the knitting all of a sudden?”
“Don't ask me? He wants me to sit with him. He wants me to knit. You'll find no complaints from me.”
“What's with this sudden fascination?”
“Your guess is as good as mine. I've yet to find a parental manual that provides guidance on the subject.”
“Why doesn't that surprise me?”
“The knit one, purl one stage of development.”
“I just don't get it.”
“Neither do I.”
“We shouldn't really do that should we.”
“Do what?”
“Talk about him whilst he's……here.”
“You're right. We shouldn't.”
“You are talk about me?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“We'd like to know why you like knitting so much?”
“Because it is nitty, nitty, nitty andddddddd it be growed.”
“?”
“Do you mean 'clicky, clicky, clicky,' er…..the sound of the needles? That clickety noise drives me wild. Perhaps you should try plastic needles instead.”
“Maybe it is the sound. Is it the sound dear?”
“Nitty, nitty, nitty!” he guffaws unable to contain his hilarity.
“Your nose is so close to the tips though. I'm surprised you haven't poked his eye out with a needle.” He screams as he covers both eyes to run blindfolded from the room at high speed.
“Ah…..that was a mistake.”
“Indeed.”
“Do you think he'll be alright?”
“Lets give him a few minutes. He has stopped screaming.”
“Do you think he hurt himself with that clunk?”
“No screaming…….so presumably not.”
“Well that's jolly annoying!”
“What is?”
“Well now……. …….we'll never know?”
“The end of another era.”
New post up on “Alien.”
February 11th, 2008 at 1:04 am
You just never know what entices him.
Amazing.
Love you.
Suzy
February 11th, 2008 at 1:11 am
I dunno, I got from that conversation that it is cool to see it Grow. to go from nothing into something and it gets bigger. but then again I wasn’t there. my boys enjoy watching me play computer games that contain rolling balls where you have to shoot a matching color. They will sit and stare and yell out the next color occasionally. weird obsession but it gets them to sit down so I go with it.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:14 am
And I voted for you and yes it took a while…
All worth it though..
February 11th, 2008 at 3:37 am
Here we always wait for the screaming… sure sign of things going one way or the other…
February 11th, 2008 at 6:04 am
I love this post. A perfect look into your life.
February 11th, 2008 at 6:45 am
“We’d like to know why you like knitting so much?â€
“Because it is nitty, nitty, nitty andddddddd it be growed.â€
This is precious.
February 11th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Hee hee! I like the “nitty nitty nitty”! Maybe he’s just fascinated by how it all “works” and how it feels.
Happy Monday!
February 11th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Psst Mad’s… he told you
There is a children’s knitting set in stores. I have seen them, and never owned on. There’s a small tube with hooks on the top and they use a crochet hook to hook the loops over and over around it. Beyond that… I don’t know what else comes in the kit.
Would that interest him? Then you could knit together.
Sheri
February 11th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Very cute. I think he likes to be close to you, all cuddly while you knit. Very sweet.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
He’s nailed it.
I’m spectrumy, myself. Spectrumesque? Spectrumose? and it’s my self-soother of choice.
February 11th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
ya know…I have a tough time with him/her and she/he. I always mess them up. Luckily those who love me understand.
February 11th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Well when you think of it, knitting IS pretty amazing. whole garments constructed just by tying knots…
February 11th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
I would have been right with him and for pitty sake woman…you KNIT TOO!!!!! See why I call you my wonderwoman!
February 11th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Such a charming glimpse of a day in your life.
And I think knitting is cool, too. Probably because I can’t do it at all.
February 12th, 2008 at 4:05 am
”
“We’d like to know why you like knitting so much?â€
“Because it is nitty, nitty, nitty andddddddd it be growed.â€
This is precious.”
Agreed. Also, his explanation makes perfect sense.
February 12th, 2008 at 9:05 am
“Ah….that was a mistake.” This got me giggling for some reason. Patrick likes knitting because it ‘grows’ as well.
February 13th, 2008 at 11:18 am
The scarf looks lovely. We could use a few extra of those here in frozen Minnesota!
February 13th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
hehe we have done the same … spoke in front of the kid and freaked her out … never good
February 17th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
nitty nitty nitty…haha that is the best! My daughter just started knitting, she says it is a good sensory thing..I can’t wait to tell her about nitty nitty nitty she will love that.