Colors and Powers

One of Jason's latest interests is colors. He loves learning the names of colors and identifying items with their colors, such as "red car" and "purple flower." Now when we read stories, he is more interested in having me point to the pictures and say what color everything is. It is so cute to watch him try so hard to learn colors, but the concept is still not completely formed in his mind. He doesn't have all the colors straight, but luckily he is young enough that he doesn't mind constant correction.

Along with his fascination for colors has come a fascination for flowers, or "powers" as Jason calls them. Talk about stopping to smell the roses. Jason wants to look at everybody's flowers and figure out what colors they are. We don't get very far on walks because has to walk into every yard to check out all the neighbors' flowers. We are trying to be very good about only touching flowers, not picking them. He was doing really great with that until I started letting him pick dandelions, which every child assumes is like a normal flower, and now he can't understand why I won't let him pick the others. Life can be so confusing.