My Visit With My Son

I will have to post this later. At one point my son perked up and looked surprised at the mention of the name "Henry". He had a light in his eyes and looked at the monitor. I don't know why he'd look at her. Then, at one point, he had his hands in his pockets and was standing exactly like a man whose posture he mirrored and at first I thought Mike Tancer and then I thought it was Harry, POW (prince of wales or prisoner of war). But I haven't seen a lot of footage of how he stands, but something was ringing a bell and I knew it was one or the other.

He loved all the books. He wanted me to read "Trashy Town" the most and chimed in cheerfully. I am going to look for more interactive books. He also wanted more of Thomas the Train books and I said I'd bring more next time. He was intrigued by the French book which has only pictures and no words and is about a boy and a dog or wolf. When he left, that was the one he wanted to carry out with him. He kept saying at first, "Read it!" and I explained there were no words and this book was different because you imagine or make up your own story as you look at the pictures and then he wanted a reread of it.

He wanted to take all the books with him except for the more adult one, which was of Latin fairytales but the one he wanted me to start on was a romance and understandably, at his age, he wasn't interested in a story about a suitor winning someone's hand in marriage. He chose the story because he thought it was about horses, due to a photo of horses running.

I think I need to get more serious art for him because he has a good eye. He had every book read to him, some more than others, except for the Secret Room one and ? the fairytale one. He took them all with him except for the fairytale book.

I also brought him a basket and candy for an Easter hunt but he wasn't interested. I showed him my necklace though and the first thing he said when he saw the pendant was a happy and surprised, "Is that ME?" and I said, yes, it was a boy with an O for Oliver just like him, and it was him to me! and I told everyone. He DID seem to really like this idea and was really happy about it. When he was in a particular mood the one thing to coax him out of it was to bring up the pendant and ask if I should show it to the horses and he nodded happily. After that, he was out of his mood and we did a lot of reading today because he was sleepy and said he'd stayed up late.

He fed me lots of jellybeans and Hershey's kisses and said he really liked kisses. He gave me black ones bc I like black licorice and looked hurt when I didn't want to take another flavor. I told him I liked the other flavors but liked black licorice the best and didn't want to mix up the flavors in my mouth. But by the end I let him put all the different colors in my mouth. He really just wanted to feed me and be helping.

He also showed a love of tires. Tires? and wondered what was up. I got out the discovery book about cars and he asked what all the parts were but then was losing interest. Until he saw tires. Then he wanted a description of all the tires from the first rubber tire ever made to the "slick wheel" or "slick racing" tire. He looked really tired and had dark circles but his language and everything still seemed a little clearer.

He smelled like dirt, tractors, motorbikes, cars, and the outdoors. Someone had cleaned out the grease or dirt from under his nails too.

He didn't want the Secret Room book but did want to take it with him. He said, "Now you're going too far." and I have no idea what that was supposed to mean.

He also had nice manners in wanting to hold the door open for others.

There were a bunch of little screwdriver marks throughout his sweater which he wears and which doesn't usually have holes. He was also wearing water socks which I think are fine but getting a little bit small.

Someone at some point taught him some game about hiding things from me and going to a corner and he sometimes looks play-pretend mad but this gets old so I'm trying to coax him out of doing it because it doesn't allow for other play.
I know for sure that his posture and stance was just like someone I used to know or, alternately, saw on a video clip. I think it had to be either Beau Blixseth, Mike Tancer, or William or Harry. I think. I'm positive. Even though I maybe didn't know them long or have only seen a short clip or two, I remember everything. I guess he sort of stood with his hands in pockets, like a photo I've seen of William (POW) too. I don't know. Something looked familiar.

He also seemed more clear headed and observant of me too. Just not so clouded or recovering from some weird thing. I still worried about him because of his eyes and at one point wondered if he was having a stomach upset a little because of something he did but he didn't do anything really weird. The holes in his sweater were weird and someone has done that to my stuff too in the past, in the same way.

I was happy about what books he liked. He is very boyish and likes all the boy stuff but he has a real artistic eye too.

When the CASA guy came in, he was wearing a 4 ninja turtles shirt and asked Oliver what he would name them and Oliver said one would be "Jerod" and I'm wondering who he knows. Then he said one of them was a girl and the CASA guy said it was "Sally" then and said he had 4 on the front and on his back too.

At the very end, Oliver was doing a lot of kicks. Good aim too, but in a ninja way he was kicking, or making those noises.

I think he is at the age where he should have his talents developed more and be in preschool too and one thing that bothers me is that I would have him signed up for all of that stuff. I currently have him signed up for the toybrary and for swimming lessons but I think he could do other things too.