Our boys have different personalities. But they also share many interests, one of which is buttons. By buttons, I mean things that you can push on an electronic device.
Owen gets distinct pleasure from pressing the TV on/off button – much to my dismay. He likes to do it whenever he can – including while watching TV. Kyle not so much. Kyle’s far more interested in pushing the buttons on the Microwave. Over and over and over. Sometimes it gets turned on. Sometimes there is something in it when it gets turned on. Sometimes that something is metal. Much to my dismay.
The boys like to sit on my lap at my computer and have me show them a video I’m working on (about them of course). Owen likes to try to tap the keyboard. Over and over. The video starts, stops and closes (without saving of course).
But maybe the best is that Kyle recently said (as he climbed in my chair and started pressing keys on my keyboard – which somehow immediately shut my laptop down – I just don’t know how that happened): “Not my computer. I don’t have computer [kompootor]. I ask Santa for computer, Papi?”
Now that’s a love of pushing buttons. Most of all, my heart button.