264Pancakes, Symmetry and Boys are Smarter than Girls

The Pancake Count

We are now up to 264 pancakes made and eaten.  The boy made his own yesterday and proudly displayed how clean the counter was and that no carnage left behind, including strange clear liquids.  As I have posted in the past, these mornings with the boy and his pancakes are still among my favorite, our conversations, although short are often poignant, like the one the other day.  I pick at him because of his need for all things to be equal, he is a waffle.  I, on the other hand, like odds and all things swirly, I am spaghetti.

The boy has a tendency towards symmetry and order even with his pancakes (although not by his bedroom that is now a repository for pantry items and dirty laundry) He puts all four pancakes in its own corner, then proceeds to put a dollop of syrup in the middle of each and spreads it evenly over each pancake.  THEN he uses his knife and delicately slices through each one.  I had given him a bit of a ration on this, so he rebelled and started cutting them into triangles and other odd shapes to prove he wasn't so stiff.  To add more drama, I caught him eating them STACKED.  It was a moment that was fleeting, he is back to his four corner methods of pancake consumption.

Breakfast Conversations

I bet you didn't know that men can back into parking spaces better than woment because of their ability to picture 3D geometric images in their minds.  I had no idea either.  Now, granted I can not park into a regular parking spot straight to save my life, but I can fit my car into ANY parallel parking situation.  I am that person you hate in the parking lot.  But according to the boy, there is a chunk of female brain that just doesn't process that imagery quite as well, hence our inability to park.  He learned this on a German television show called Galileo, therefore it must be fact.  So ladies, give it up on the visualizing the parking space because we are physiolgically incapable of accomplishing such a feat.