On Mother’s Day, Nico and I were in Old Navy and saw this rad, multi-colored bouncy ball for sale by the entrance. He is super into balls right now, to the point where he can spot one a mile away. He often mutters, “A-ball, a-ball, a-ball” to himself, to the tune of “Da Bears, da Bears, da Bears.” So, not surprisingly, he was quite upset when I didn’t let him take the ball to the back of the store, where I was on a mission to find some summer clothes for him. As I held up tiny shorts and T-shirts, comparing their prices, Nico sat in his stroller and shouted, “A Ball! A Ball! A Ball!” “Uh-huh,” I said distractedly, stretching the waistband of some miniature cargo shorts, having heard this hundreds of times before. “We’ll go back to see the ball in a minute.” And as usual, the kid did not let up.
But then a lady leaned over. “Um, he’s talking about THAT ball,” she said, pointing past the stroller. I looked down and, sure enough, a lone bouncy ball was hiding in a dark corner, underneath a rack of baby yoga pants.
A wave of guilt washed over me: some lady had just caught me totally ignoring my kid. But I also felt myself beaming with pride: my kid has an eagle eye for balls. So I grabbed the ball and tossed it in the stroller, where Nico clutched it with the giddiest face ever. Then we headed to the checkout line. Lil’ dude earned that ball.
My child is in the ball phase too!! He absolutely loves them! One time he was using a kid-mode coloring game on my phone and there was a tiny SPECK on the screen and he kept pointing at it and yelling A-Ball, A-Ball, A-Ball! lol! any type of ball he wants and can find. So I definitely feel your appreciation for your kids radar :). And I definitely get sometimes accidentally ignoring them since every two seconds they are pointing out or just yelling A-Ball!! They always are so happy to see one 🙂
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Yes! It is amazing how obsessed they are with balls. Nico sees them *everywhere*– he even thinks that the circular app icons on my MacBook, like Google Chrome and iTunes, are balls 🙂
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