Are all five year-olds as eccentric as mine?
Yes- although the fixation on Paul Bunyon gave me pause.
CW just loved computers, so his obsessions weren't as noticeable since they took place in his room and revolved around his desktop, but Ammo was all over the place-- starting with dinosaurs, He-man figures, drawing detailed pictures of decapitated men, and basketball, and continuing into the teen years with the Blue Man Group and movies and the keyboard. He knows every John Cusack movie by heart and can do all Cusack's monologues. He went through a Freddy Kreuger phase and took apart all the scissors in the house, cut the fingers off his batting gloves, and made himself some very serious claws. He spent hundreds of dollars and an entire summer in the garage building a huge musical instrument out of PVC pipes. It's still there. I thought maybe we could sell the PVC pipe to the city for the new townhall- I swear there's enough of it- and pay for the first year of tuition, but he begged us not to take it apart. Then all our trashcans disappeared when he decided to do a drum solo with his band that involved a friend pouring flourescent paint on the tops while another held black lights over them. The trashcans are still gone and my laundry room sink glows in the dark.
I do think that it is this ability to focus that leads to success. I have no idea what Freddy Kreuger claws or Paul Bunyon will lead to in the future, but I am absolutely confident that it's all good, as they say. |
