Reply #51: My little guy is going to be nine tomorrow!

[LeftyMom]

I have no idea who told him he can grow up on me.

I love that he's free to be himself, even when being himself means being really, really geeky, and not worry about the social implications of that or what other people think. He doesn't try to fit himself into anybody's preconceived boxes of different kinds of kids, so he likes some things that are "cool" (video games, skateboarding, guitar) some that are "uncool" (WoW, Star Trek, lego) and some that are so off the wall I don't think most kids his age even have an opinion about them (old school hardcore, film making.)

Luckily, minime acts just like me, but looks just like a scaled down version of flvegan (I have no idea why- they're not related, I didn't know him back then) so he has the chance to be different without having to worry about what other people think. It's interesting to me, since I was always a really small kid for my age, to see how differently my kid gets treated because he's so much bigger than his peers, even though he's very gentle and would never, ever use that to his advantage.