two things from when Kirby was four
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From "the Kirby diary":
January 25, 1991 I was recording Romeo and Juliet onto videotape and Kirby
was watching the end. I was in the other room and he came in and said “That
lady has got that man’s sword in her herself!” A couple of hours later he came
and asked me about it, and I told him as simply as I could the story, and I
expected any minute he’d lose interest and that it would be enough, but he asked
more questions. I explained some of it by saying that when he’s 16 and old
enough to drive a car (that’s the big marker in his mind—16) that he might
love a girl so much his stomach hurt, and that Romeo and Juliet loved each other
so much their stomachs hurt all the time. He went with that.
Tue, Apr 30, 1991
Marty likes to take the five Lego horses, put them in a big basket, and say
they’re his babies. Kirby didn’t want him to do it today. I made Kirby leave
him alone, and so Marty put the horses in the basket and I gave him a flannel
baby blanket, and he was very happy. After a while, in the other room, I
hear Kirby saying “You know what these are? They’re not babies. They’re just
toys.” and I hear “tap tap tap” like Kirby’s tapping on the plastic horse
to emphasize that they’re not babies. I called Kirby in where I was and said
“don’t do that to Marty, that’s mean,” and Kirby said really pretty
innocently that Splinter was saying that, that Kirby wasn’t saying it, that he was just
making Splinter say it. I told Kirby it would be mean of me to say “This
isn’t really Splinter, it’s just a toy,” and I tapped on his head with my
fingernail. He looked thoughtful, and said, “Well I can play with Splinter however
I want to.” “Okay, but you can’t play with Marty however you want to.
How’s that?” “Not very good.” he said.
Kirby was nearly five,
Marty was a year and a half old.
That's how details always seem to go with me.
From "the Kirby diary":
January 25, 1991 I was recording Romeo and Juliet onto videotape and Kirby
was watching the end. I was in the other room and he came in and said “That
lady has got that man’s sword in her herself!” A couple of hours later he came
and asked me about it, and I told him as simply as I could the story, and I
expected any minute he’d lose interest and that it would be enough, but he asked
more questions. I explained some of it by saying that when he’s 16 and old
enough to drive a car (that’s the big marker in his mind—16) that he might
love a girl so much his stomach hurt, and that Romeo and Juliet loved each other
so much their stomachs hurt all the time. He went with that.
Tue, Apr 30, 1991
Marty likes to take the five Lego horses, put them in a big basket, and say
they’re his babies. Kirby didn’t want him to do it today. I made Kirby leave
him alone, and so Marty put the horses in the basket and I gave him a flannel
baby blanket, and he was very happy. After a while, in the other room, I
hear Kirby saying “You know what these are? They’re not babies. They’re just
toys.” and I hear “tap tap tap” like Kirby’s tapping on the plastic horse
to emphasize that they’re not babies. I called Kirby in where I was and said
“don’t do that to Marty, that’s mean,” and Kirby said really pretty
innocently that Splinter was saying that, that Kirby wasn’t saying it, that he was just
making Splinter say it. I told Kirby it would be mean of me to say “This
isn’t really Splinter, it’s just a toy,” and I tapped on his head with my
fingernail. He looked thoughtful, and said, “Well I can play with Splinter however
I want to.” “Okay, but you can’t play with Marty however you want to.
How’s that?” “Not very good.” he said.
Kirby was nearly five,
Marty was a year and a half old.