Outer Spaces

Jem started the strangest thing. While driving, she would suddenly shout, "Outer space!" repeatedly, because this is what she does. Even when she has received what Bug and I may think is sufficient acknowledgment of her random verbal outbursts, she'll continue to repeat something. So much so that Bug is now saying things like, "Come ON, Jem, we heard you the first twenty times. You don't have to repeat it." Gah - Sounds too familiar.

Anyway, she says this, and we have no idea what the hell she's talking about. Then one day she yells, "OOOOH, Mommy! TWO outer spaces!" Looking around, the only thing I see as her focus is a couple water towers. Sure enough, that was it. True acknowledgment. We talked about how big they were, and the colors, and the letters we saw on them. She was so happy to finally have someone to talk to about the outer spaces.

It took a while for her to correct herself to calling them water towers. At first she kept saying "outer spaces," then "outer... towers," then "outer... water towers." She's now calling them "water towers." Whatever she calls them, she sure does love talking about them. Are there water tower toys? Her birthday is coming up; we should look.

(This mistaken identity of water towers came from a "Backyardigans" episode that includes a spaceship that looks very much like a water tower.)

Comments

[Amber]

We have a water tower for the thomas train set...you could check that out.

[Mister Mrtl]

Dude, you never fail to post a great story about our kids. You rule.

Love

[RzDrms]

wow...mr. mrtl's com(pli)ment is just the sweetest thing!