Charles’ obsession with cars has now moved to a new level. Over the last week or two he has discovered that some of those books he’s been using as toys have pictures of cars. This has been quite the revelation. Charles has gone so far as to carry a book with pictures of cars instead of an actual car. He has a couple of favorite books, little thick paged ones. One is a book of trucks and the other is a counting book which on one pair of pages has fifty cars. Charles has sat in my lap, looking at that page for 5 or 10 minutes, touching each picture. He eats with a book open beside him and goes to sleep clutching a book.
It hasn’t been all joy, though. There are some books that are bigger which are harder for him to carry, so big that he can’t carry a physical car at the same time. It’s somewhat sad to watch him desperately picking up the cars and the books, never quite able to have them all in hand at the same time.It does no good to pick him up, because then he has even more trouble holding on to his cars (physical and pictorial). Eventually he gives up enough that he can be comforted. At least we know what his first word is going to be.
Charles also spent about a week playing with the new car section from the Sunday paper. Still no talking, but a deep facination with things automotive.
