December 14th, 2010 by Busy Mommy

On mimicing:  Ben has noticed this more than me, but he is starting to imitate us in ways we wouldn’t have thought.

When I sit him on my lap at the computer he likes to daintily tap and shake his fingers on the keyboard, which I know he wouldn’t do if he hadn’t paid attention to us typing- he would have been banging on it if he were just playing.  He loves to press the buttons on cell phones (big surprise for child of the 21st century).

This other quick story of imitation has to be prefaced a little.  Ben has a music desk/area that has 2 keyboards, one slightly above the other, a computer screen, computer keyboard and mouse.  When Ben is doing music his fingers move back and forth among all these devices as he uses his music recording program.  And just tonight while Ben was holding Nolan in front of him at his music area, letting him play the keyboard pianos, Nolan was doing the same thing!  He’d play one keyboard, then move his hands to the other one, then touch the computer mouse, then press some buttons on the typing keyboard, then play the piano keyboard again.  Very funny.  It’s so weird how you just have no idea how much they’re observing and absorbing at any given moment.

Another funny example is when I was giving Ben some massage since his back was hurting.  Nolan was watching and then he’d come over and kind of press his hands on his daddy too.  That was this summer.  It was pretty cute.