Interview with a 2-year old

Q: How was your day, K?
A: Good. It was not bad. It was good.

Q: What was the best thing that happened to you today?
A: I wanted some water and Mary gave me a cup of water.

Q: What was the worst thing that happened to you today?
A: I cried and cried.

Q: Why did you cry and cry?
A: Because I had snot in my nose.

Other things K has been up to lately:

- Getting chased by monsters.

- Wearing our shoes.

- Simultaneously playing as many instruments as possible.

- Inventing a complicated game where two plastic people wait for the bus but instead get picked up, and dumped out, by every wheeled toy in the house. This game takes about half an hour to complete and makes quite a mess. It also requires extensive commentary by the plastic people, voiced by me. I have tried to get K to take over this duty but he insists, "SAY!"

- Crashing engines into barbershops, thanks to a Thomas story we read. The other day he formed his grapes into a rectangle and announced that they were an engine. "Is the engine going to crash into the carrots?" I asked. He gave me a withering look. "Those are not carrots, Mommy. That's a barbershop."

- Taking all the kitchen utensils out of the drawer, naming them, and then putting them all back. As a result, he knows that an offset spatula is for frosting cakes.

- Reciting his books. This is the end of "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back," where Little Cat Z takes the Voom off his head to clean up the snow. (Of course, if you've never read the book, this will be totally incomprehensible.)