Mr. Inquisitive

Jack's young, so he doesn't know a lot yet. He asks a lot of questions...

- At dinner, looking out the same window he's been looking out for the past 8 months: "What's that big tree DOING?" Us: "Um....he's just standing there." Jack: "Oh." Then: "But what's he DOING?" And then, because I think he asked the question another night, and I gave this answer, he said, "He's guarding the other trees."

- "What's THAT?" "Er, that's your chair." (Or something equally ordinary.) "Oh." And then: "What's THAT?" "That's Daddy's drink." "Can I SEE it?" "Sure, sure." Looks. Then: "Can I TASTE it?" "No, that's just for Daddys." "Can I TOUCH it?" "No, no." "Want to see it." And so he does.

- Not so much a question, but more a request that can't possibly be met. We're reading a book, that shows animals standing outside a building or something. "Want them to go in the house," or "Want him to wear his hat," or "Want him to go inside." In some respects, Jack wants to change what happens in his books -- he wants to be able to move the characters around himself.

- Jack sometimes shows only minimal interest in his meals, but he has tons of interest in his play food. His big thing now is to set up chairs on his "table," which is actually a play store, and set up meals of plastic pancakes, waffles, etc. And no, this has nothing to do with the topic, but it's what he's been doing a lot of lately.

- We've been talking up going to Nana's and Baba's house, where we're going in a couple of days. Jack's in favor of the idea, as he enjoys them and the various toys there -- ones we had as kids.

Yesterday he asked Emily, "Are we going to Nana and Baba's house?" "Yes," she said. Then he asked, "Will Nana and Baba be there?"

- His favorite stuffed toy seems to change by the week; this week it's Winnie the Pooh. The other night he wailed for us, and I thought he was saying he was poopy. Nope -- he was looking for Pooh.