Red Kid

So we went to this toddler group in our local area and it was a lot of fun. There was one incident that I need to record because I was really impressed.
My son and a few other kids were playing when one of the kids decided to hit my son and knock him down over in response to my son trying to get the stuffed turtle from the other kid's clutches. So the little boy hit him and then pushed him down. I learned all fo this later, after my son collapsed into a pile on the floor while doing his rendition of scarlet o'hara when Ret is leaving Tara. He's a bit dramatic at times....
Anyhow, I run over pick him up and say, what happened? he starts babbling through the tears and pink drool ( yes his lip was cut). The braeal jfoenms jhfhlw hit me and ueshed me. Eventually when he settled down he says, "The Red Kid hit me and pushed me down". I look over and see the red kid's mommy, who I know very well, scolding him, " Go give him the turtle and say you are sorry or you will have a time out" What would you like to do?
I realize that my son, didnt knowthis little boy's name so the only thing he could figure to do is describe him, as The red kid ( he was wearing a red shirt).
I was very impressed by this. Wow, I was thinking, Thisis amazing he knew he needed to tellme who did it, he knew he didnt know this little boys name, but he figured out that he could describe what he was wearing and that would reveal who it was.
Wow!

Hole Punch

The other day, my son woke up and notice a single hole puncher on the dining room table.
Immediately he scurried over to the table, climbed up on the chair at record speed and said, what is that?
I told, oh, this is a cool device that can punch holes in paper. So he began to try to squeeze the handle together in hopes of seeing how it punches holes.
His little hands were a bit weak at forsst, but after 2 trys he was able to squeeze it all the way down.
Then I showed him how it worked, we slide the paper here and then squeeze.
When I punched the hole in the paper and showed him what happened, he looked at me like I had just discovered the photosynthesis equation for how to grow money on trees! It was just sooooo totally amazed. I could see his mind working! Like, Whoa, how the heck did that happen, and why didnt they tell me this before!?
Then I showed him where the left over holes go, he opened the chamber and all the little white dots fell into a clump on the table.
He look at the pile, grabs it and throws it in the air, and shouts, its SNOWING!
I just loooked at him like, how did you know that?

Why I adore my 2 year old child.

Sometimes I find myself in awe of the miraculous things he is doing.
I feel like I am part of this huge secret society that only parents and close family members are a part of.
We all know all the amazing things our child does, and we all know how miraculous, but unless you birng it up to someone who knows, nobody talks about it.
There are so many times when I jus think, wow! There are just no words to accurately express what just happened.