Monday, 21 September 2009
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Griffin: the One, the Only, the Not-to-be-Copied
The five-year-old has turned from the spitting, screaming, biting that got him euphemistically categorized as a “spirited” toddler into a bright, loving, bouncy Kindergartener. I adore him. Really. It’s just so lovely to see the transformation in him. Not that he still can’t be ridiculously stubborn and demanding sometimes, but it does not define him anymore.He has this lovely habit of coming up to me–unprompted–and saying:
I love you Mom, so much.
My heart melts and I give him a big, don’t grow up too soon my baby, hug.
The other night we were having our ritual bedtime snuggle in the big chair. The television was on, and someone on the show said
I love you so much Mom.
Immediately, I felt his little spine straighten, and with just a hint of righteous indignation he declared.
Hey! That’s what I say!
He was silent for a few moments except for the whir and clunk of the gears inside his brain.
I awaited the results of his calculating.
And then he looked at me:
I love you Mom…greatly.
A true original, my Griffin.
What do you think? Future screenwriter? Copyright lawyer? Patent clerk?
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- About Me: I live in small town mortgaged suburbia and commute a long ways to work as an arts administrator in a biggish city in the Great White North. I have one husband, three kids (1 girl and 2 boys), and one very enthusiastic Labrador-Retriever cross with Marley-ish tendencies. These are the things I tend to write about (not to be considered an exhaustive or otherwise limiting list): parenting and in particular parenting kids with brain challenges (learning disabilities, ADHD, and aspergers), the arts, particularly the performing arts, the weirdness of life and human behaviour, my conspiracy theory that we actually live in a Matrix-world (don't even bother trying to tell me we don't), and really, anything shiny. Read more of what I write at: http://tentativeequinox.wordpress.com/
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Comments (3)
Haha, that's adorable. :] You're son seems like a true sweetheart.
I'm thinking screenwriter. No one wants to hear actors repeating the same words all the time, this skill of his could come in very handy! :D
Unrelated, but my eldest son, who happens to have ADHD, had a similar "aww-inspiring" moment. At the age of perhaps 2 or 3, I had dropped the kids at a daycare and was heading out to work. I gave my kids a kiss on the cheek, lipstick and all. I caught sight of my son wiping his cheek, and I joked, "So - you're wiping my kiss off you?"
In all sweet-seriousness, he rose his eyebrows, looked up at me [still smearing his hand over the lipstick-print] and said, shaking his head gently, "Rub in...", grinned, then scooted off to go play.
Moments to make a Mom squish...nowadays, he's a teen, and has already a loyal female following.
As to your question: perhaps he'll wind up a lyricist...writers have a habit of not only trying to select original statements, but also surgically accurate words for maximum impact.
You are one lucky mom!