....And From the Back Seat I Hear.....

I recently learned there are lots of advantages to keeping children rear-facing in their car seats past one year of age.  Tonight on the way home, however, I learned that there are also some disadvantages.  One of these is that I can't actually see Kay Kay.

That was very frightening when I heard the words, "Poop is on my shoes."  Hmmm.  "Poop is on your shoes?  Wow.  How did poop get on your shoes," I ask.  Naturally, the response was, "Poop was in my body.  Poop is on my shoes."  Because I was driving over the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, and it was very windy, I chose to concentrate on the fact that she seemed to understand past tense and present tense.  Soon we both forgot about the fact (or fiction) that poop was on the shoes.  We're easily distracted, I suppose.

The next thing I heard is a request to hear the current favorite song for car rides, "Muddy Water".  Here's a link in case you've never heard it.  I can't be held responsible if you begin to sing it every time you cross the Cape Fear.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYKc1foMWyU

As we turned in to our neighborhood, I heard, "Papa cow is bull.  Baby cow is calf.  Mama cow is....no." (No means, "I don't know" in Kay Kay-ese.)  Sometimes I just love knowing what's going through that little brain.  Like when she's trying to figure out what the mama cow is called.  Not when she's imagining (?) that there's poop on her shoes.  For the record, there wasn't, at least when I got to them.

The following pictures have nothing to do with this post, but everyone loves pictures so here are a few from our visit to the arboretum Monday.  The visit itself was a little bittersweet since it was our last visit with me as Treasurer of the Master Gardener Volunteer Association, a position I've held for almost four years.  We've made lots of good memories there and look forward to more!