Cliche for a reason

So everybody talks about seeing the world through the eyes of a child. Well I finally do in that I have a daughter, 19 months, and I am constantly amazed at how she sees the world. She see things where I never would. In many respects, her world is so simple; ball, bubbles, school bus, fire truck, helicopter. Never mind that all buses are school buses and any truck that is big with things on it are fire trucks, like trash and dump trucks. And the ever present ball, it is everywhere. Sometimes, when she is repeating a word over and over, and over, I must focus hard to figure out what she is saying or pinpoint what she is seeing, but usually when I do, I am surprised to find out she is right, even when she isn't. She is teaching me to stop and see the world again.

The other day we were playing at the park and we saw another little girl playing with her father. Neither spoke English so I told Riley to say Hola to the young girl. Riley did not quite get the concept of Ola so as we were playing she said "Hola stairs". I mistakenly thought she was saying hello to the stairs so I chuckled and praised her for remembering the word. As we were leaving, she said "Bye park, bye slide, bye Hola". So there you go...now, when I drive down the street, I can't go without noticing a fire truck or a school bus and I am just a little disappointed when she is not with me to see it too.