We have officially reached the question stage of a toddler's life. Lilly's asking us questions constantly, not just why, but questions figuring out how things work, how things are made, and just general wondering questions.
We'll start with the most awkward question, "How is Baby Owl going to get out?" I was thrown and stumbled about but eventually got to saying I was going to push the baby out and the doctor was going to be there to help. A few days later at breakfast, she looks closely at me and says, "Where's the pusher?", looking for some sort of handle or something I would use to push the baby out.
Our minivan has snow tires, but our car does not. Lilly calls the Corolla the "zooming car" and often prefers to ride in that car over the van. One morning she really wanted to take the car but I said we had to take the van because it has snow tires, so it is safer. The girl was stoked to hear about snow tires. So excited that when I picked her up from day care she excitedly told her teacher that her mommy picked her up in the van and the van has snow tires! (Imagine emphatic arm movements and such excitement she nearly fell out of my arms). Many weeks later we pulled into the driveway and Lilly asked, "Do garbage trucks have snow tires?"
In early January we had the side door to the basement replaced. There was spray foam insulation sticking out from under the door. As Nick and Lilly walked past the door on their way to the front yard, she noticed the yellow foam sticking out and asked Nick, "What's that beneath the door?"
Categorizing is very important to Lilly right now. She likes/needs to know where things fit in. A little after Christmas she asked if animals have chimneys and so we talked about how animals don't live in houses, so they don't, just humans have houses. That lead to many questions about what things are human and what things are not human. Last week on our way home from the library she asked if stop signs were human. I said that they weren't living, and she replied, "What do you mean, living?"
Finally, we were driving home from a basketball game and the roads were a little slick. Nick ended up having to slow down a bit more quickly than anticipated. Lilly's comment from the backseat something along the lines of, "why'd the traffic slow down?" and we started talking about the road being slippery. She followed up with, "are you looking for deer?" About a month before this incident we had gone swimming up in Bayfield and on the way home we had to slam on the brakes for a herd of deer. It amazes me what she remembers!
We'll start with the most awkward question, "How is Baby Owl going to get out?" I was thrown and stumbled about but eventually got to saying I was going to push the baby out and the doctor was going to be there to help. A few days later at breakfast, she looks closely at me and says, "Where's the pusher?", looking for some sort of handle or something I would use to push the baby out.
Our minivan has snow tires, but our car does not. Lilly calls the Corolla the "zooming car" and often prefers to ride in that car over the van. One morning she really wanted to take the car but I said we had to take the van because it has snow tires, so it is safer. The girl was stoked to hear about snow tires. So excited that when I picked her up from day care she excitedly told her teacher that her mommy picked her up in the van and the van has snow tires! (Imagine emphatic arm movements and such excitement she nearly fell out of my arms). Many weeks later we pulled into the driveway and Lilly asked, "Do garbage trucks have snow tires?"
In early January we had the side door to the basement replaced. There was spray foam insulation sticking out from under the door. As Nick and Lilly walked past the door on their way to the front yard, she noticed the yellow foam sticking out and asked Nick, "What's that beneath the door?"
Categorizing is very important to Lilly right now. She likes/needs to know where things fit in. A little after Christmas she asked if animals have chimneys and so we talked about how animals don't live in houses, so they don't, just humans have houses. That lead to many questions about what things are human and what things are not human. Last week on our way home from the library she asked if stop signs were human. I said that they weren't living, and she replied, "What do you mean, living?"
Finally, we were driving home from a basketball game and the roads were a little slick. Nick ended up having to slow down a bit more quickly than anticipated. Lilly's comment from the backseat something along the lines of, "why'd the traffic slow down?" and we started talking about the road being slippery. She followed up with, "are you looking for deer?" About a month before this incident we had gone swimming up in Bayfield and on the way home we had to slam on the brakes for a herd of deer. It amazes me what she remembers!
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| Checking out the sea monsters. We have brine shrimp, daphnia, and what appears to be a triop or two. |
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