I was sitting on the rocking chair with a certain baby boy (who happens to be 7 months old today!) and I asked D to climb up onto the futon to turn on the living room light. She added some extra acrobatics to her climbing and successfully reached the light switch.
"You did it! Thanks," said I.
"I became a hero!" exclaimed D.
"A hero? What's a hero?"
"It's...ummmm... when you're really smart. Like Puss."
(No doubt my faithful readers will know that she was referring to Puss-in-Boots, the character from Shrek who now has his own full-length movie and is the star of two books that we own and read regularly.)
On the topic of definitions, D then decided to quiz me: "Do you know what teenager means?"
"What does it mean?" I asked in return.
"It means if you're half grown up and half children."
Later on in the evening, D climbed onto the futon to turn on the light again. This time she announced, "I'm an artist like Uncle D!"
Hmmm, I thought, okay. Perhaps she thinks that hero and artist are synonyms. That would certainly make sense in relation to her adoration of her artist uncle.
"What does artist mean?" I asked.
"When you paint really good," she replied - at which point I figured out that she was looking at some of her artwork hanging close to the light switch.
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