What's cool is not that Ana's starting to understand rules...

[conuly]

It's that she's applying them to other people.

So if she hears somebody yelling, she'll say "OH! That's not very nice! They shouldn't be yelling."

Or, if we're passing by some graffiti, as we did yesterday...

Ana: YOOK! See the yett... OH NO! Somebody shouldn't wite on da wall!

*sees more graffiti*

OH NO! Dey should wite on paper! Ana draw on paper, and Mommy, and Daddy, and Connie, and Eva!

I don't draw on wall!


She knows how she should act, and expects others to behave accordingly.

(scene - walking to the playground)
Me: Ana, do you see that tree? It's covered with lots of pretty pink flowers!
Ana: Yeah! They fixed it already!
Me: wha????
Ana: Now they don't drop it anymore! (she means the flowers, I'm sure)
Me: *frantically stifling giggles* That's... that's right, sweetie! I'll tell the tree to be careful!
Ana: Oh, wait. TREE! You be careful!
Me: *starting to giggle*
Ana: Tree says okay.

At this point, I couldn't keep the giggles in any longer.

(move forward to today)

Me: Hey, there's that tree again. Do you like the flowers on it?
Ana: Uh-huh. And tree can't drop anymore flowers. They stay on tree.
Me: Yeah... it doesn't work that way....

Comments

[conuly]

This isn't street-art graffiti, it's just writing-on-the-wall graffiti. No creativity.