Sock Man

Remember the song "Spoon Man" by Soundgarden from the early 90's? With Olie's unfortunate spill into the heater recently, he now has both hands completely bandaged up covering the one inch blisters on his palms. In order to keep him from shredding those bandages, he gets to wear one of daddy's gym socks on each arm and, on him, they go all the way up to his shoulders. To help him see that wearing socks on your arms is way cool, I've now trained him to throw both arms up in the air whenever I call out, "Sock Man." He's a totally new kind of superhero, able to soak up spills with a single swipe of his arm.



Since he now has no use of his hands, his reduced forms of play are twofold. Either constantly sweep all toys and other objects away with broad strokes of his sockhands, or pick things up with his teeth. He divides his time equally between the two. Lately, one of his favorite pastimes has been to snatch Justine's glasses from her face. No matter how prepared she is, he nearly always succeeds at this. He's quite fast. But now, with no hands available, he's taken to lunging at her face trying to snatch away the glasses with his teeth. Luckily for her, so far he has missed. He'll certainly feel guilty later on when his mama tells the story of how those permanent teeth marks appeared on her nose.