One of the strangest things that happens to you when you are raising a toddler is how the normally mundane things get you incredibly excited. Every day, on our way to daycare and work, Franklin and I point out the trucks, cars and buses to each other. As you can imagine, we have a pretty full conversation. It gets even more exciting when we see a tractor or a large construction vehicle

I am so engrossed in the game of spotting cool things to show Frank that even after I have left him at daycare, or am on my own going to class, I will see a bus and yell. "BUS!!!!!!!!!" to nobody but myself.

There was a maintenance worker fixing the door outside the bookstore cafe this morning and he had an extremely large collection of screwdrivers in a large, complicated looking toolbox - it all looked pretty impressive. The guy working on the door stopped what he was doing and watched as I peered in and oooohed and ahhhhhed like a weirdo. Franklin wasn't even there but I was talking about the toolbox as if he was:

"Wow! That's a lot of screwdrivers! What do you do with all those screwdrivers? Look at all the colours! You must be very busy to have all those screwdrivers!...."

Ah well, all this talking is good for Franklin. He actually asked one of the daycare providers to be "gentle" while she was washing his face!
Last night, he asked D to put on his Bob the Builder DVD.