Water

I love watching my toddler learn, and I am so thrilled to be a witness to it. It's really amazing to see how the human mind develops, and how quickly it adapts, and takes in new information and merges that information with what is already known. For example, how is it that such a young brain understands the concept of water (oo-wah-tuh!) in some of its many forms? She understands that there is water in her sippy, and that it is different than milk in her sippy. She tells me that it is water in this clear plastic bottle, and in the Pur Pitcher in the fridge, and knows that it is for drinking. She also understands that it is water in her bath (which sometime she has tried to drink), and coming out of the tap when we wash our hands, and water in a lake or fountain or pool at Meijer Gardens. And if the container holding a beverage is opaque, it's a drink (dihttt) unless she can get a look at it. So many of these transferences I am not aware of having taught her. And while it's possible she may have picked it up when we weren't thinking about it, or at daycare... I just want to go on record saying it's really cool to watch a child put the puzzle pieces of her world together.