On our fridge hangs this picture of Cal from this past winter, in his early days of being 3. He’s wearing his blue “monster” jacket (so named this morning), his monster hat (with big eyeballs and dragon-like red fins) and his monster (with red claws) mittens. Not a high-quality picture, it looks like it may have been snowing or drizzling a bit when it was taken -- Cal’s squinting. Either that or he was doing one of his imitations of a monster. Afterall, he was going through his “I-love-monsters” phase at around that time.
This morning, Cal saw this picture and started talking, telling me about his being a “monster” and that it “snowed a lot” and that he was “eating a lot of snow.” This led perfectly into the question I really wanted to ask him:
Me: “So, Cal, do you eat EVERY kind of snow?”
Cal <smiling>: “Nooo.”
Me: “What kind of snow DON’T you eat?”
Cal: “YELLOW snow… <pause>… because it’s REALLY sour.”
Atta boy, Cal! He may not really get the reason, but he knows the rule!
Does he know it tastes sour from experience?
ReplyDeleteNot sure. If it were black snow, I'd say yes (saw him put snow from the parking lot in his mouth once). The theory is that he associates yellow with sour because of lemons, which he has eaten.
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