seeing through kiddo eyes

Luc, 3, riding in the grocery cart the other day, thoughtfully said, “You know, Mommy. Everyone has boogies.” Which is true, but might not be obvious in the boogie-intolerant culture we live in.

Sophie, 5, was watching an episode of Spiderman yesterday, a chase scene, Spiderman flinging himself and a blond babe through the city, while this dude in a kind of rhino suit tried to keep up. “He’ll never find us!” says Spiderman on top of some building.

Sophie looks at me and says, “You know, Spiderman leaves all these webs behind him when he swings around. All the rhino guy has to do is follow the trail of webs.”

Nothing gets past these kids.

It’s not just noticing the obvious, though. It’s seeing things that aren’t there, too. Like, yesterday morning, Luc bit into his toast and held it up, waving it slightly, and said, “Look. It’s rough and tumbling seas!” To which Sophie answered, “Arrrr, matey!”

Same game, later in the day, Luc held up a piece of popcorn saying, “Hey, Mommy, look! This piece looks like a digger!”

So Sophie starts examining her piece. “Huh. This one looks like an octopus doing the hula.”

Luc, all excited, says, “Really? Let me see!” and “Oh yeah, it DOES look like an octopus doing the hula!”

The world is just so interesting when you’re small.