After brunch today, Katherine and I were up at the counter paying, when Katherine pointed at the price label (25 cents) and asked, “What does that say?”<\/p>\n
She recognizes that all that scribbling around her means something<\/i>. And that she can ask and get explanations for it (as inexplicable as that may seem). It’s one thing to recognize that there’s writing in books that relates to the story being said, it’s quite another to start picking it out of the environment around her.<\/p>\n
Well, it seems like a big deal to me<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Later on today, Kitten and I were driving around (shopping for speaker mounts, if you must know). <\/p>\n
“He needs a helmet! Daddy, he needs a helmet!”<\/p>\n
She was pointing at a motorcyclist beside us who was auditioning to be an organ donor. Glad to know all that nattering about her having to wear her helmet whilst triking is paying off.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, he’s really stupid,” I agreed with her, just to drive home the lesson.<\/p>\n
“Yeah.”<\/p>\n
“What do you think would happen if he fell off his motorcycle?”<\/p>\n
“That would be really bad.”<\/p>\n
Yeah, well, it seemed like a good conversation to me<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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