We got him a small rocking-horse for Christmas – we brought him to Toys-R-Us a few weeks ago to look for toys and came across it. Among toys he liked, that especially he didn’t want put back on the shelf – he didn’t even want it out of reach of his arms. I’m now wondering how we got it out of his sight when we came home to hide it until Christmas. On first seeing it again Christmas morning, he remembered that you can squeeze the ears and it says things or sings a song, with its jaws mechanically moving, and he went straight to do that while rocking on it. Tia tells me that today he looked closely at its nose, asking “Boogers?” – looking for the boogers that he knows there are on real horses such as at the pasture adjoining my work building. He also fed it some chips, and when he squeezed its ears and it talked and sang, crumbling chips fell out of its mouth.
He understands the most important thing about Santa. I talked to him about Santa on Christmas Eve (don’t worry, stalwart Christians, we’ve been talking to him about baby Jesus the whole season), and he said “Brings presents.” He also pointed to the Christmas tree and said “Puts them, under there.”