Jonathan is beginning to sit still and listen to me read a short book from cover to cover. His favorite in the last few days are Disel 10 Means Trouble and We Are Going on a Bear Hunt. Disel 10 is a mean disel engine in the Thomas and Friends series. In the book he is very mean and attempts to destroy all the steam engines. However, Jonathan loves Disel 10. He likes to talk to Disel 10. He tells him, "Disel 10, you are mean. Don't eat my blanket. Don't eat Thomas. Don't eat the bear." But then he tells me"I love Disel 10. He is my friend." He will kiss Disel 10 on the book. He loves to get excited when we get to the page of the bear. One time he told the bear:"You are mean, like Disel 10."
Tonight I asked him why he wanted to be a friend with someone so mean like Disel 10. Of course he didn't know, but he still wanted to be his friend. He did ask Disel 10, "Why are you mean?" Well, Disel 10 replied (through me)," I am not a Christian. I am just mean."
At one point, Jonathan asked him, don't eat my blanket. Disel 10 replied (through me of course), "I'm hungry." Jonathan prompted got an imaginary carrot,"I give you a carrot." To this Disel 10 hissed:"I eat fuel. I don't eat carrot." Jonathan had no idea what fuel was but he got a fuel and gave it to him:"Here Disel 10. I got you one fuel. Don't eat my blanket."
We read the story of Disel 10 book again. This time when Lady, the beautiful purple gold engine from the Magic Railroad came to rescue the steam engines. Lady spoke very softly (through me) to Jonathan:"Hi Jonathan! Nice to see you. You know Disel 10 tries to hurt me. Why are you friends with him? He is so mean. You shouldn't be friends with someone so mean." After that, Jonathan didn't want to be Disel 10's friend anymore because he was mean.
After a short while, Jonathan was friend with Disel 10 again. I asked him why he was a friend again. He replied:"He is not mean anymore. He give me a chance. He talks to me." He couldn't explain what the chance was. Maybe he was giving Disel 10 a second chance. I did tell him once that Disel 10 was mean in the book because he wasn't a Christian then. But he changed and became a Christian and became nice. He even helped Thomas and the other engines to complete the airport on the Island of Sodor (the last part was true from one of the Thomas engine episodes).
The young mind is so easily influenced by what we tell him. I have to be very careful with my words.
Another funny event. Yesterday I accidentally slammed the car door on my mom's fingers. I said sorry profusely to my mom. I thought to make it a point to teach Jonathan that we needed to apologize when we did something wrong. So as I drove off, I told him that I was wrong and was sorry. To my surprise, Jonathan told me,"我打你屁股. (I spank you)." We all laughed. I told him that he could not spank me but grandma could. I told him that grandma could do that when we got out of the car. Then we all forgot about it when we got to our destination.
The toddler's mind is amazing.
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