he remembers

i think that because mo's still a toddler and because so much of what he says is still hard to understand, i sometimes forget that he's a little real person. one of the ways it comes out is that he remembers things and asks for them. the other day, i told him we were going to dry him off with his lion towel, and he said to me, "where's the octopus, mommy?" he has a towel with an octopus on it, but we hadn't used it (probably for a few weeks!) because we'd been in heavy rotation with the lion towel. i guess he wanted to have the octopus back. i was so impressed that he remembered that we had that towel, with nothing (to my knowledge) that made him think of it. 

the other thing that he remembers is that we had two matchbox cars that we kept in the car, a yellow one and a blue one. well, because they're so small, we actually (probably) lost the blue one... i think like a month and a half ago. but he faithfully asks me, every time i put the yellow car in his hand, "where's the blue car, mommy?" he remembers.

he also is rather quick to learn people's names. two teachers have remarked to me that they didn't know Mo knew their name (or even how he learned it because they didn't teach him their name), but he just started using it one day. one of the ladies isn't even a teacher in his class... in fact, even i don't know her name. wait. moses knows something i don't know! mind. blown.

lovelove,

me