a two-year-old's intepretations of events and motivations.

Ant and I were reading a book about trucks tonight. On the last page it says, "How many trucks have you seen?" Which I think is a really stupid question because we see trucks ALL the time. So instead, we were talking about all the different trucks on the page, and how Ant had seen them. Garbage trucks, mail trucks, fire engines, ambulances... he's seen them all, except, I thought, an ice cream truck. I asked him, and he said no he hadn't seen one. I told him that we could show him one when it was hot, in the summer time. He replied, "I'm going to make the wind come and blow and blow and blow until it's hot and I can see an ice cream truck."

The second time I put him to bed (Timmy had "woken him up" by crying), we were discussing that, and he told me, "last night Mommy fed Timmy and I helped and then he was quiet". Ant feeding Timmy (with a bottle) was just adorable. He put the boppy on, had Timmy lying on it - everything we normally do.

We subsequently read Curious George and the Firefighters, and were paying attention to the fire dog, which gets left behind by the firefighters, but chases after the truck and makes it to the fire anyway. I was asking where the dog was on one page, and Ant told me, "He's climbing up the fire truck to help George" (who was on top of the fire truck juggling some balls).