The Lamp

I was doing my homework, last night, in the living room at the kitchen table. I had pulled a lamp over from the wall so that I could see what I was doing. The lamp was a chest high floor lamp that has a long skinny neck that runs from the ground to the light. I was sitting there doing my homework and Carter was crawling around on the ground. All of the sudden, I hear this *tap* *tap* *tap* sound on the lamp. And Carter is laying at the base of the lamp, and he starts hitting it. I didn’t really pay much attention to it, I just looked at it and then at him and saw that he was safe and that was it, but he kept tapping on it with his hand, so I looked at him again and watched him for a second. He began tapping again for a second, just about three quick taps, and then he’d stop and look up. Then he did it again, hitting it about 3 times, and then he’d stop and look up again. I sat there and kind of stared at him, and what he was doing, and I knew he was doing something, but I couldn’t figure it out. Then it hit me….he has this little touch lamp in his room by his changing table, and all you have to do is tap the metal of the lamp and it turns on. Cindy lets him play with the lamp sometimes and he sits there and pounds on it and watches it turn on and off. He was trying to do the same exact thing with the floor lamp in the front room! It was sooooo cute! He is such a smart boy! I was so happy that it brought me to tears! He is so cute! And is such a quick learner! I will remember that story for the rest of my life.