Tonight
For the past several days R (my 2 year old) has been playing a new game. In the evenings on the way home she finds the moon out of her backseat window. She then plays "Find the MOON!" As the roads meander or we make turns she looks for the moon and asks "Mommy where's the moon? Where's the moon mommy?" Over and Over again until she finds it. Despite the repetition this has been some of the best interactions R and I have had this week. She's been sick/cranky most of the time.
However, tonight when we got home she wanted to stand in the driveway and look at the moon with me. We looked and laughed together and I told her about it was high in the sky. She says "Let's go to the moon mommy!" I repeated that it was really really high in the sky. I asked how she would get there. She pauses and smiles really big and babbles about "BALLOONS! A balloon mommy! Lets go get a balloon!" Now this a pretty trite mommy story, look-how-precocious-my-child-is type thing. But the part that made it DAMN FUNNY was when I put her down she was shouting about "let's go get a balloon!" and she starts trying to run around to the backyard like 'oh yeah thats where I parked my space traveling balloon'. She stops and turns around all confused and looks at me like 'Mom, hello...the space ballon? Where'd you park it?'
I had to tell her to go ask her dad to get her inside.
However, tonight when we got home she wanted to stand in the driveway and look at the moon with me. We looked and laughed together and I told her about it was high in the sky. She says "Let's go to the moon mommy!" I repeated that it was really really high in the sky. I asked how she would get there. She pauses and smiles really big and babbles about "BALLOONS! A balloon mommy! Lets go get a balloon!" Now this a pretty trite mommy story, look-how-precocious-my-child-is type thing. But the part that made it DAMN FUNNY was when I put her down she was shouting about "let's go get a balloon!" and she starts trying to run around to the backyard like 'oh yeah thats where I parked my space traveling balloon'. She stops and turns around all confused and looks at me like 'Mom, hello...the space ballon? Where'd you park it?'
I had to tell her to go ask her dad to get her inside.