MrsGGB calls it "the disease", with one of the most recognizable symptoms being a propensity to drop what you are doing and look up in the sky when the unmistakable sound of an airplane engine is overhead.
On Friday cac and I were outside in the driveway and we heard a plane overhead. I looked over at him and watched him swing his head skyward, find the plane in the sky, and then resume what he was doing.
I said to him, "oh, it's that disease that GGB mentioned on the board." And he said, "huh?" And I said, "the one where you stop whatever you're doing to look for the airplane you just heard above you." And he said, "did I just do that?" I said, "yup."
S4 does it all the time, too. I said to cac, "is that a boy thing or a 'got-flying-in-your-blood' thing?" cac replied, "no, it's not just a boy thing. He's probably got the bug too."
I remember the first time S4 flew on a plane (commercial). He was about 11 months old. He was sitting in the window seat looking out the window. I watched him as the plane zoomed down the runway, getting up to speed for takeoff, and then as soon as the plane got into the air, he turned and looked at us with this excited little smile. cac looked at me and I think he just nodded his head as if to say, "yep, that's my boy."
