Daley Ponderings

Jonathan is two years old today. Amazing!
When we visited Florida, I found a couple of Bible storybooks (one in rhyme) that were true to the Bible and not boring or condescending. (There are some horrible products out there intended for children.) Jonathan enjoys listening as long as I will keep reading. He especially likes the baby asleep on the hay.

Along those lines, we have a small set of soft stuffed people - Mary, Joseph, Jesus in a manger, and a donkey. Jonathan likes to play with them and usually refers to Jesus as "sleeping in carseat."

A couple of weeks ago, he found a small humpback whale in our pile of characters and he said "That [is a] blue fish." Then he proceeded to say something I didn't quite get, so I asked him to repeat. He was recalling the story of Jonah! Uh-oh, Jonah, you should have gone to Ninevah! Once I said it for him, he is much better with pronunciation and says it every once in a while - "uh-oh, Jonah, gone to Ninevah!"

One evening Jonathan was standing on the blue couch looking out our window and he could see the reflections of things in the room projected to the outside. There was a set of rodent bits on a shelf and he said there was a mouse in the yard behind. I said I thought it was a muskrat but that it wasn't really outside, pointing out his own reflection floating in the air outside and explaining about reflections.

Soon after, he turned around and looked at the bits and said, "Nutria." Of course then I had to check, and he was right! So then he looked at them all and correctly named 9 out of 10. Not all with their full names (meadow vole was just "vole") but enough to know that he recognized them.

Wednesday I was making carrot sticks and Jonathan was playing in the dining room. Then based on the sound of peeling carrots alone, he said, "carrots!" and ran in for some.

One of the birthday cards he got has an elephant holding a numeral 2 in his trunk. We haven't done much with numerals yet. When he opened the card, he said, "That a elephant. Z on it!" Yes, a 2 does look like a Z. And I hadn't known he could recognize a z.