Owen's current fave youtube video is 'How It's Made - Doughnuts'. It fascinates him to watch the factory-made doughnuts rolling around on ramps. He echoes the narrator as the movie goes (cooks evenwy thwoughout!) and says, Mmmm!

Owen's imagination is starting to develop. Today he was telling a shredded wheat square to take a drink while holding it up to his sippy cup straw. At another meal, he picked out the smallest grape on his tray and called it the baby grape, then found the biggest and called it the daddy grape. I was exTREMEly relieved, though surprised, that the mommy grape was smaller than the daddy grape.

More imagination evidence; putting together pieces of info from different sources. Today after church he was chatting with me in the kitchen while I made lunch and here's how it went:

Owen: 'Thomas Train likes Bob the Builder'
Amy: 'Oh really? I didn't know that they knew each other' (and incidentally, we don't watch either of those shows; we have a book or two, and maybe the kids at Sunday school were talking about those characters this morning?)
Owen: Bob Builder likes Pilchard. Bob Builder LUFFS Pilchard!
Amy: Oh, yes, Pilchard is Bob the Builder's cat, isn't he? He's a blue cat! What a funny color for a cat.
Owen: Pilchard has mouth (pointing at own mouth). Pilchard eat wiff mouth.
Amy: Mmm, that's right. Cats eat with their mouths!
Owen: Pilchard eat beans in mouth. Pilchard eats edamames. Pilchard like edamames. Mmm, yummy.

I think Owen might be the first two year old to have expressed his notion that Pilchard the cat likes to eat edamame. That one made me giggle. Owen thinks edamame are great fun to peel, but the one or two beans he's tried eating haven't made it past getting a chew or two before the eject button was pressed.