I'd do a cardie or a vest. Since he's in sunny CA, a vest might be better? I've been to his town several times over the years in December and it's not cold enough for me to wear a sweater.

If you were Martha you'd design one of those activity books that has flaps to button and unbutton, zip and unzip, snap and unsnap, etc, all around the theme of robots or space. If you were an Alpha Mom you'd hire someone to do it for you.

Knitting sounds fine.

Anhata
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