Profiles in Great Children....Or At Least Mine.

I hope I am flattering a friend by borrowing a theme that she did on her blog. She has a few more children than I, however the concept is still the same. Thanks for the idea, Char!

Michael is a great thinker. He has his grandfather's analytical mind. He can take apart a gadget and put it back together. He can watch a movie or TV show--Star Wars, Iron Man, and Batman are his favorites-- and replicate any spaceship, vehicle, weapon that he sees. He often builds these with his vast supply of Legos. This mind of his never stops working....the gears are always turning. He constantly asks questions.....questions I cannot answer, like why didn't McDonald's clear the snow from their parking lot very well...or why was that man walking on the wrong side of the road? How did they build that? Why did they use that to build it? And the list goes on....

He also has his father's eye for creative design. He can design on paper and then build....again, with the Legos.....anything, usually military-themed. I swear the boy's work will be featured on the Military Channel TV Show "Future Weapons." He could become a fantastic engineer someday....if he puts his mind to it.

While these descriptions lead one to believe that my son is somehow intertwined with the Dark side, he is quite the opposite. He is a Mama's boy....for now, anyway. He is the one who helps me push the shopping cart in the store (although I catch glimpses of him cranking the throttle on the handlebars and racing through the aisles terrorizing slow comparison shoppers everywhere!). He snuggles on my lap during movie night. While he is a self-proclaimed member of the "No Girls Allowed" Club from Little Rascals and shuts his eyes when there's kissing on TV, he has the biggest blue eyes and the girls will be swooning at his feet when he sets foot in high school.

Mike is the athletic type. He plays baseball and wants to play for the Yankees someday....when he's not designing weapons or shooting them in the Marine Corps.

He is also a jokester....like his father. He loves to laugh and his laugh is infectious! He makes up jokes and one-liners on the spot, but his specialty is slapstick humor. As a toddler, his favorite show was The Three Stooges. He enjoys jumping out at his twin sister from around the corner and scaring her into next week. He loves to "creep" his fingers up his mother's back to make her think there is a spider back there. His personal motto is "bodily functions are funny." He taught himself how to make armpit farts and then figured out how to do the same maneuver behind his knees.

This is the kid that's going to change the world someday. Whether it be by designing an innovative weapon for the US Military, or throwing a No-Hitter in the World Series, or making the world laugh a little louder and longer, my son is going places!