J is very clever with his eyes. He will observe happenings and catalogue them in his head to be used and remembered at a later date.
For this reason I have to watch out myself for him lurking in corners spying where I hide the 'star lock' key. This key is a magic key that opens doors to his favourite rooms - the kitchen and the downstairs utility room and toilet/shower room.
It is a one key fits all star locks and so it saves the hassle of ever having to have spare keys cut or panic about losing them as they are easily bought from any hardware store.
I do have several over the house in their respective hiding places, but it is when I am in a rush and not thinking that he spies where I have hidden it. My first knowledge of this fact is when I either see him with Nutella spread all around his mouth or I can hear him opening and shutting cupboards trying to find his food.
Another catalogued incident is when he thinks we are going to our static caravan holiday home.
He is very keen to only wear his pyjamas around the house as of late and so when he sees me packing the box to go away he will change purposefully into his day clothes and carry his pyjamas around with him, ready to get into the car. If I pack them for him he will remove them as he needs to carry them.
The second we arrive at the caravan he is in the bedroom undressing and re-dressing back into his pyjamas.
Sometimes he mistakes us all getting ready to go out at the weekend for us going to the caravan and he can get quite upset when I remove them from his possession.
He loves the caravan park as it is set in a forest and is not commercialised with amusement parks, fairgrounds, loud music, shops etecetera. It is a quiet, but fairly large park and we have huge tall trees all around us, with woodpeckers pecking, magpies squawking, and squirrels scampering up the trunks to the tall willowy branches that spread with panoramic views.
There is nothing chavvy about our caravan with its gas central heating, double glazing, en suite, fully fitted kitchen, movable sofa and chairs, king sized bed and its gorgeous location!
It is tranquil and peaceful and he spends his days playing on my I Phone and relaxing on the decking which spans the length and width of the caravan and is accessed by the patio doors in the lounge or the front door in the diner.
His most favourite thing about the caravan park is that it is near a McDonald's, and anyone who knows J or remembers my blogs from a year ago will testify, he loves "cola chips". The boy asks for them all day long. He knows it is just over the road, past the roundabout, take a right and a left, and you are there!
McDonald's location managers must hear where we are going to and build stores just so J is never too far away from his beloved, if weekly treated favourite fast food eatery!
