I'm constantly amazed at Luke's expanding vocabulary and the associations he makes with words. Most of the time there's a game he'll play - one of the first Luke has made up on his own. He'll say "bird!" or "airplane!", and I'll have to look around until I can find what he's talking about...

One of my current favorite stories about this new "game" is from a trip we took a month ago to the Babies R Us in Kennesaw. We were pulling into the parking lot, and all we could see was the side of the building. Luke very clearly says "frog!" from the backseat. Now I know that there's no WAY he could see a frog. It would have to be a pretty big frog for him to see it from the car, and a cursory look around tells me that there's no visible frog-suited man anywhere. I play the patronizing mom role and suggest other words he might be meaning to say. "Store? Is that what you see, sweetie? Tree? Car?" "Frog!" he insists. "Frog! Frog! Frog!" I give up. I pick him up and carry him inside Babies R Us and put him in a cart where he points over the cart area next to the exit of the store. "Frog!" Oh my goodness. I know what he's talking about. No, he didn't see it when we pulled into the parking lot, but he remembered from the last time we were there (about a month earlier) that I had let him ride one of those little kiddie rides with a Kermit the Frog in it! I'm amazed by his memory and the fact that he can associate Babies R Us with a frog. Now we can never leave Babies R Us without visiting him. :)

Now you, too, can play Luke's favorite new game! Can you find the "moon" in this picture?