I came home Saturday and told Parker, who was smeared with grease and had obviously been doing something under my car, that we were going to learn to crochet. His eyebrows raised and he asked skeptically "All of us?"

"You, me and Caroline." I replied. "And K is going to teach us."

"ohhhhh kayyyyyyy....." he strung out reluctantly.

"Crochet will help you with your fine-motor skills and you'll have fun." I encouraged.

"Wait!" he suddenly burst out. "Fine motor skills! Okay! Yeah! It'll help me play Guitar Hero! That sounds great! When do we start?"

So my boy is learning to crochet to enhance his Guitar Hero prowess and advance his game... Works for me.

He'll probably crochet better than me anyway.

Maybe this will help my Guitar Hero skills.

That would be good.

Rock on, Parker.

Steph, you are quite the manipulator!