He's got the "read your knitting" brain -

Toby noted this morning while I was donning his lobster mitts that "Mama, they don't look like knitting because they don't have all those little dots".  The mitts are made out of garter stitch, not stockinette, so there are bumps all over rather than the smooth knitted stitches.

I keep meaning to blog his forays into learning how to knit.  I sat down with him a while ago and went over the through the window, around the tree, back through the window, and off the ledge! thing with him.  He totally got it.  His fingers aren't all that nimble and he didn't do a lot of stitches - but he did take a break to grab a pencil and piece of paper and write down the "Rules" - those four steps, one by one, with words and pictorial representation.   Totally cracks me up.

Wonder where he got his analytic brain ;)