Beatrice loves books, storytelling, and pretend play, and while she usually pretends to do everyday adult activities like feeding the baby or driving to work or "making cocktails," she also makes up some very unusual stories. A few of her recent observations:
1. Beatrice assured me the other day that the sun has yellow hair and takes baths while the moon has white hair and takes showers. The moon is an adult but the sun is a child that lives with her mother.
2. Looking out the car window last weekend, Beatrice said seriously, "The mountains are sad because their toys broke. But the clouds' mommy will fix the toys and then the mountains will be happy again."
3. After putting on a pair of butterfly wings Aunt Mina sent us, Beatrice shouted, "I'm a rabbit! . . . with wings."
Beatrice also loves making up songs. Last week she made up new lyrics to "The Wheels on the Bus." All her friends and family members took the bus to different fun locations: Rosemary went to the bookstore, Suzan and Naresh went to see whales, and so on. And Uncle James? Uncle James went to "pick up waste" in the backyard.
However even Beatrice cannot imagine a number bigger than nineteen, and while she certainly cannot count to nineteen, she uses the number to mean "a number uncountably large," as when Marie offered her two marshmallows and she countered, "I need nineteen."
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