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In recent weeks, Mac has graduated up from sentences into actual narratives - of sorts. If you ask him a question like "What did you do today?" he will often respond by giving a present-tense version of his own reactions and statements to events that happened. Reconstructing the actual facts of the matter, especially if you weren't there - now that's the amusement and the challenge.

( Three examples to amuse your Monday: )

Some other amusing bits of dialogue from our road trip back from L.A. yesterday:
Mac: (singing) "Jingle Truck! Jingle Truck!"
Me: "Oh what fun, it is to ride, in a four-wheel open truck, hey?"
CP: "That wasn't the rhyme I was thinking of."

Mac: "Where's julianyap? I want to see julianyap! And ladybird97!"
Me: julianyap's in Singapore right now, very far away.
Mac: "Take plane see Julian?"
Me: "No, we can't do that. But soon, you're going to see jendaviswilson and redhound! And Finn!"
Mac: "Okay. I like Finn."

When we came home, he ran to the picture of friends from Gencon, and pointed out the people he knew, "There's Julian! And ladybird97! And Daddy! And mrmorse (actually xse99, but, well, they've both got curly brown hair)! And redhound (actually havenstone, a fairly reasonable confusion.) " Then he paused, upset. "Where's Mac-y?"
Trying to explain to him that there was no way he could have been in a photo from the summer of 1998 did not seem to go over well.