Jonathan seems to think that a baseball glove is for throwing the ball as well as catching it. I told him that if he wanted to throw a ball with a tool, he should get a lacrosse stick, it would work better than a glove. He then asked why a "cross like we have upstairs" (I think he was referring to the palm frond crosses) would be useful. I then emphasized and explained the difference between "cross" and "lacrosse." But he still didn't understand that part. He went to his lowercase alphabet puzzle, took out the "t" and threw the ball with it!
One time, he was going to go get something from the kitchen when I asked him to do something first. When he was done with that, he gave me a surprised/blank look and asked, "What was I thinking?" I think that's the first time that's happened to him - the "I know I was here for a reason and what was it." So don't blame your age - it happens to two year olds!
We were eating breakfast the other day when Jonathan suddenly asked, "Is God as big as the sky?" I replied, "God is bigger than the sky. He's bigger than everything." His respose (I wish I could convey the tone) "Whoa!"
He likes finding rhymes, silly or real. He'll make up his own, or find them, or ask me what rhymes with something. He observed this about one of our friends: "Ellery rhymes with celery! I like celery. You chop it up into little pieces. Then you eat a tunafish sandwich!"
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I made some sort of noise of wondering or something, and he said, "What?", but I let him go out to the washing machine, where he discovered the stool was missing. Then he came back into the bathroom wondering where his stool was.
When he saw it next to the toilet, where he had just placed it 10 seconds before, then everything clicked, and he realized what had happened.
It was funny to think of it like a computer program: the queue of operations that he had in his head still got executed, even though I had temporarily injected a new instruction, and his processor didn't realize the later instruction needed to be removed, so it was carried out anyway.