kids I meant to post this when it happened, but I forgot.

Posted June 16, 2005 • Comments Off on I meant to post this when it happened, but I forgot.

One day last week I had my computer with me while I was over at Lisa’s. I was sitting at the dining room table, and Josie was opposite me. We were talking about fruit. I think she was being offered a banana, and did not want one. It is a known fact that she likes bananas, so we must have been talking about that.

On a whim, I pointed to the back of my computer, which looks like this…

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… and said the words one says most often to Jo: “What’s that?” (Josie is not quite two. Every word is new. “What’s that?” and “What’s this?” are the backbone of her conversations.)

“Josie, what’s that?”

“Apple.”

This amazed me. It’s not a photograph or even a drawing. It’s not three-dimensional. It has a bite out of it. It’s stylized. Most importantly (I think), it’s not red. But she got it. Instantly. “Apple.” Like, “ask me a hard one now.”