Learning to read can be very exciting. And like most two year olds, Marielle constantly wants to learn. So many nights as we're sitting around the t.v. she'll pull out her kids enclyclopedia and ask Tom and I "What's that?"
Glancing down at the book one of us will usually explain to her she's looking at a spider or a sea lion as she examines the picture with total amazment.
However, it never dawned on me Marielle was forming her idea of prepositions until the other day when we were standing in a checkout line at Walgreens and she looked up at a big, burly man with a long beard and screamed, "What's that?"
Quietly (as I tried distracting her) I told her that was a man. But she didn't seem to believe me because very loudly, she said again, "What's that?"
This time I had to laugh and luckily the big, burly man in front of her was a good sport and smiled, but that's when I realized just maybe I need to explain the difference between what and who to my two year old daughter.
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