Today, I was copied on an email where Eric was asked to write a quick paragraph on Alex's life outside his battle with cancer.
This is what Eric wrote:
"Alexander is an incredibly playful four year old. On his first day of pre-school this year the first words in the morning were 'I get to go to school today!'. He couldn't wait to get out on the playground with his friends.
He does not watch tv shows, he plays tv shows. Right now he especially likes the Dukes of Hazzard. Every chase scene, jump and car wreck in reproduced, with extreme attention to detail, using hot wheel cars on our living room table.
He loves to do 'space turns' on anything he can. At the end of the movie Space Balls the flying Winnebago spaceship does a 180 casting off stars like rocks on a gravel road. Alex first started doing his 'space turns' on a tricycle. He would get it going as fast as he could and then turn hard swinging the back end around and stopping. Then he graduated to using his battery powered Jeep. One day we asked him to put it away in the garage forgetting that the garage doors were closed. He immediately started down our rather steep driveway going faster and faster heading directly for the closed doors. We were screaming at him 'Stop! Stop!'. He didn't listen, he knew what he was doing. At the very last second he pulled the wheel hard to the left swinging the back end around and stopping inches from the door. He looked back at us with a huge grin on his face and expression that said 'what, you didn't know I was going to do that'?"
Do you see why I love my husband so much? What a great description of Alex - our wonderful 4 year old boy!
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I remember Alex started doing 'space turns' or hockey turns and stops on his little rolling 'cars' when he was probably 18 months old. Right?
ReplyDeleteHe sure did - he has always had such great spacial awareness!
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