Max Week: Thinker Boy

The pre-mop chairs on the kitchen table 

become a nice thinking spot.  

Do you have a Thinker Boy?  I do.

Thinker Boys do things like stop and look at their twisty pretzel and carefully bite it into the letter Y.  And then bite the next one into an M. And the next one,"it's just a triangle".

Thinker Boys call you back to their beds quite a while after you've tucked them in to ask things like,"Is there a floor in outer space?" and "Are robbers in real life?".

And they think of all sorts of connections like "this orange chicken tastes like that orange chicken daddy got at the airport". (3 months ago -- and daddy doesn't even remember that orange chicken).

Thinker Boys ask while you are driving, "Can people make water?" and then when you give him the answer of "No, water is a natural resource.  Things in nature cannot be made by people", Thinker Boy rattles off a few things like rocks and dirt to show he understands and then 20 minutes down the road calls out that he thought of another good one, "Barf".  When you ask him what Barf is, he says, "You know, like Barf from a tree".  Always thinking, that Thinker Boy.

Thinker Boys see a problem and they have to fix it.  You see all of these cups and bowls on the floor?  These aren't a mess.....



They are Thinker Boy ant traps.  Every one of them has an ant prisoner underneath.  Thinker Boy took a while with this one.

Thinker Boy finds a little wad of batting upstairs on the floor and asks if it is Mormor's hair.  He has been thinking about how it fell out of her head.

Thinker Boys think of new ways to do things.

And really good Thinker Boys come to you when you are sad or sick and ask you what you need.  Because they are thinking.  And when they don't know what to do they bring you a glass of cold water -- because they know where the cups and the water are.  And even when they are very little, thinker boys give you their blanket. Like when they are barely three, because you are sad and they know where their blanket is.

I love Thinker Boys.


(I had to laugh when I read and saw the picture at the very end of a post today by a favorite blogger mama.  You can see what her funny Thinker Boy did amongst a house full of sickies to make his mama laugh. love those thinker boys)


**Welcome to Max week-- where you get Max to the Max.