Sunday, November 11, 2007

How's that again?

Our family's become expert at spotting VW bugs, PT Cruisers, and convertibles in the past month, after Susanna's friend Abby taught her the game. Every conversation in the car is now punctuated with comments such as "Cruiser!" or "I saw it first!" "No you didn't!" and so on. It's very relaxing.

Nathan's 4-year-old contribution has been to call out "Bug!" or "convertible" with no reference to reality.

But on the way to school the other morning, it dawned on him that the little yellow VW bug on our porch is the same as the bugs that his sister calls. So he made his first actual sighting.

"Yellow bug! I saw a yellow bug!"

"Good job, Nathan!" I encouraged him. Then he delivered the coup de grace,

"I know which one is not which one, and which one is which one."