Trucks and Computers

If there are two things John Henry loves (besides Mama, Papa and Margaret Mary), they are trucks and computers. John Henry loves playing with all his little cars and trucks and I often find one shelf of our bookshelf cleared with remnants of John Henry play on them.


He likes to line them up, make them crash and roll them around on the floor. It is pretty cute. He also has a very loyal following of books about his beloved vehicles. (He gets mad when it is Margaret Mary's turn to pick out a book to read. He pushes her book away, tries to put his book in front of hers, screams, etc. Is he a little brother or what? When he wants you to come read to him, he will get a book down from the shelf, sit on a chair and then pat beside him for you to come sit. You can't say no).


John Henry's other love is the computer. If we leave the study door open and see John Henry go around the corner, we know we will find him like this:


What he can do on the computer is amazing. Just by pushing a few random buttons he has rearranged every icon on our desktop, set our clock to New York time, edited my pictures on Picasa, etc. He likes to look at pictures I've taken and laughs at pictures he finds of him. What's amazing is every single time we take him away from it, he screams and cries for quite a while.
He just wont accept the fact that the computer is off limits. We have found that the best solution is to move the chair far away from the computer so he can't reach the keyboard. He cries when we do this too; its like we are the meanest, most unreasonable parents ever. The other day at the thrift store, the kids found a little kid laptop in the toy section. It didn't' work, but John Henry laid down on his belly, right there in the middle of the store, and began typing away. We really should have bought it....

Our only guess is that he inherited this love of trucks from his from Grandad, and his love of computers from his Pawpaw.


What a fun little guy!