Saturday, July 25, 2009

The many sides of Jake

If you have ever had a conversation with Jake, you never know which Jake you are going to get. The deeply analytical Jake that likes to figure out how things work, asks a hundred times a day who invented things or is constantly building things. He has surprisingly good problem solving skills for a 7 year old and is very logical in his thought process.
Then there is the jokester who's only goal in life is to get you to laugh. He has always been a funny boy, full of laughter, but there has been some new changes over the last year. He has added physical comedy to his bag of tricks. Jake is nervous when he gets around a new group of kids, always has been. However, he has a new way of dealing with it. He now does stuff like fake punching himself in the face and violently flopping to the ground or fake passing out. To an adult this is rather annoying, but to another kid this is hilarious. He gets the kids all laughing at him and the ice is broken.
Then there is the boy with the wild imagination. However, he is very serious about his imaginary world and will talk about it like it is fact. Sometimes he is so serious that I have to ask him if he realizes they aren't real. Most of his imaginary play is centered around his farm. He has an enormous amount of animals on his farm and can tell you in detail about all of them. Poor grandma and grandpa Eustice can get stuck on the phone for quite a long time if they make the mistake of asking him how is animals are doing.

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