So Cole and I are wandering through TJ Maxx Home Goods Store and as usual I am in a race to find the items I need as well as do a quick look-see for "stuff" for the house. I know I have a limited amount of minutes before my son begins to whine. He is a trooper with all the errands he goes on with me on but he is three years old. Enough said.
I am flying through aisles attempting to find two gifts but having no idea exactly what it is that I want to find. We cruise down to the area of home decor where several older woman are leisurely combing through the odd array of bric-a-brac. Cole blurts out excitedly, "MOMMY, MOMMY, LOOK...the Eiffel Tower"...at first, I didn't realize that was what he was saying because it was so out of context and YET, there he was pointing at a decorative replica of the Eiffel Tower. The two ladies within earshot both looked up as I said "You are so right, it is the Eiffel Tower, you are so smart to recognize that". The one woman commented "WOW, have you been there?" Cole sheepishly replies "No, we have one in the book at school". The woman goes "what aren't they teaching preschoolers these days?" and we both laughed.
It was a proud moment. Whereas earlier in this post I said, he is three years old, enough said, how do I now explain that my three year old who acts like a three year old 89% of the time was able to make the connection between a world renowned structure he saw in a book at school and its miniature imitation on the shelf in a store? If that is my son's mind at work, he'll be a rocket scientist anyday!
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