Robots

My son has been preoccupied robots this week. We bought a small robot bug over the weekend (two of them, in fact), and he's wanted to take them everywhere (though they mostly remain in the car). They're very simple robots, skittering about on six legs and changing direction when they bump into something — but to him they're endlessly fascinating and fun.

He's also eager to show them off to anyone who takes an interest, to explain what they do and even how they work. Some of it he seems to understand — some, he's just repeating what I've told him, but his earnestness is charming and his enthusiasm contageous. I see so much of myself in him, remembering similar behavior from my own childhood.

(At the moment, he has them in a large glass case, which he refers to as his "bug farm.")