Magic Tricks

Toby has recently perfected the trick of making a coin disappear from the back of his fist and then re-appear from behind my ear.  He has had the patter down for about 6 months, also the re-direction stuff, but there is nothing like the sound of a coin hitting the floor to make you notice that he has failed in the 3rd skill involved!  So he is going one step better now and just pro-actively finding coins from the back of an ear.  It is very funny to see how delighted he is with this trick, and I am having to make sure that the coin is clean.
It is a shame tht the dedication that he has shown in developing this trick is harder to replicate in other parts of his life, for example homework.  I just have a box of tissues ready whenever he eventually starts the homework, some for him, some for Harry.  And a gin and tonic for me.
What I am really hoping will happen is that he will learn to pull homework out from behind his ear, although on second thoughts he is quite successful in pulling it out of my brain!