June 28, 2001
R2D2
A year or so ago, while I was still working for Aventis, Tara and Trevor came in for a visit. Trevor must have been about 15 months old. (That's a guess, I really don't remember exactly.) Now, I keep a ton of toys on and around my desk. Why? Who knows, I am broken, but thats what I do. Trevor saw R2D2 there (which by the way was supplied to me via the great people at Taco Bell as a give away when Star Wars: Phantom Menace came out.) and snatched him up. It took a few hours to get that toy out of his hands and as he has gotten older, it has only gotten worse. When Trevor draws a picture, it's a robot. When he makes something out of his LEGO's, it end up being a robot. When he is pretending to be something, chances are it is a robot. We watch movies about robots and rent videos about robots.
When Trevor did see Star Wars: Episode I, yes he did like Jar Jar (ech!), but he liked C3PO and R2D2 even more! If we end up staying in New England until he goes to college, he could check out the MIT Robotics Lab. He's better off waiting a while on that one, he would probably explode from excitement.