Attention to Detail - Lion Style
We often wonder about Jack’s mind - what it takes in and what it filters out…
… and it seems that whatever it takes in, it does so in fine detail, and in a way that is totally focussed… take lions for example…
We’ve written about Jack’s interest in lions before. Jack loves lions and he can pick one from anywhere. Big lions, small lions, lion toys, lion stickers, lion shadows - you name it, if it resembles a lion in any way, he’ll notice, and he’ll stop to look at it and study it in fine detail.
We have a house full of lions (not the real ones thankfully!) and Jack personally knows each and every lion that he has, and how they are alike and how they are different.
Jack will draw pictures of lions over and over again. (In fact, if Jack draws a picture we can pretty much guarantee it will either be a picture of our family, or a picture of a lion.) If you sit to draw lions with Jack he will pull you up on your detail if it’s not right, and he will give you blow by blow explanations as to what lions look like, do and have.
We have clay lions and playdough lions. We have lion caves made from boxes, and lion food made from paper (cut and scrunched up in a very particular way). Sometimes it seems like lion creations are taking over the house!!
Jack is very particular about the sound of a lions roar. If you happen to play lion roars with him, he will correct you if you don’t get the tone and balance of the sound just right. And the lion ‘walk’ is a skill in itself to master - your paws must flex and your back must arch in a certain way, and goodness help you if you just ‘leap’ without mastering a lion’s leaping precision.
‘Lion Boy’ is an affectionate name we have for Jack…
Lions are his thing… his focus…
For Jack, if lions are concerned, you couldn’t get any better attention to detail…
December 23rd, 2007 at 8:04 am
C for quite a number of years was totally besoted with Chopsticks!
Lovely photo! Lion Boy looks so happy! As dose his lions!!
If i were a lion i know where i would like to live!
December 23rd, 2007 at 8:25 am
Casdok - Jack would welcome you with open arms, and you’d be the most well loved lion ever!!!
December 23rd, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Lucky you!!! Lions are quite tolerable when it comes to enthusiasms!
Pamela’s high level interest is broken video tapes. I’m thankful she only breaks paper video tapes (drawn by hand) on her head, unlike the goons on You-Tube that crack their noggins with REAL video tapes.
December 23rd, 2007 at 1:33 pm
That is so sweet! Those little lions in the picture are so cute. I am sure he loves to learn all things lions. I remember being so thankful when Maizie finally began to show an interest in becoming totally into something. She has quite a few collections now.
December 23rd, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Yup, despite the speech delays they can pronounce dinosaur names accurately and Pokemon names - they correct their teachers and therapists in this regard. We have that pair of lions [and the book that went with the series sent from England!]
Cheers
December 24th, 2007 at 1:05 am
My high school mascot was a lion so I have lots-o-lion paraphernalia.
December 24th, 2007 at 9:55 am
That’s adorable. What a great picture. Jack would love my bathroom. I just redid it in animals and there are quite a few lions in there (bath towels, trash can, shower curtain)