Friday, February 09, 2007
It’s Magic!
We are now three days short of Luke’s second birthday. Every day he’s turning into more of a “person,” which is very interesting and amusing. It’s weird to see an inanimate blob slowly develop a personality. And Luke’s sure got an interesting one. My favorite thing he’s doing now is “magic.”
Luke likes to hide things from us now and ask “where’d it go?” For example, he’ll put a car behind his back (while we’re watching him, of course) and say, “where’d car go?” That of course morphed into Luke hiding his hand in his sleeve and asking “where’d hand go?”
I think I understand how Luke’s brain is working. Before, if he didn’t see it, it no longer existed. (This is why peek-a-boo amuses babies so much.) Now Luke understands that they continue to exist. But if he doesn’t see them, they disappear. And more importantly, if HE doesn’t see them, then neither does anyone else.
And that’s why the other day, he closed his eyes and said, “Where’d Lucas go?” What I love about this is that in his tiny, feeble mind, he completely disappeared from everybody’s view, like David Copperfield. It’s hard to not laugh at him when he does this. And so far, I haven’t been successful.
Luke likes to hide things from us now and ask “where’d it go?” For example, he’ll put a car behind his back (while we’re watching him, of course) and say, “where’d car go?” That of course morphed into Luke hiding his hand in his sleeve and asking “where’d hand go?”
I think I understand how Luke’s brain is working. Before, if he didn’t see it, it no longer existed. (This is why peek-a-boo amuses babies so much.) Now Luke understands that they continue to exist. But if he doesn’t see them, they disappear. And more importantly, if HE doesn’t see them, then neither does anyone else.
And that’s why the other day, he closed his eyes and said, “Where’d Lucas go?” What I love about this is that in his tiny, feeble mind, he completely disappeared from everybody’s view, like David Copperfield. It’s hard to not laugh at him when he does this. And so far, I haven’t been successful.
