CCTS: age 2 and 1/2

I first posted on misc. kids over a decade ago. Where has the time
gone! I don't think that I've posted in a couple years, but my little
one, Hypatia, is now as old as Andrico was when I started posting, and
she's saying the same sorts of hillarious stuff as her older brother
used to say that compelled me to post a decade or so ago.

Anyhooo, we no longer live in Madison; we live in Lancaster, very
southwestern Wisconsin, these days, very close to Dubuque. We've been
going down there frequently these past three weeks, dealing with a
rental property that the tenants trashed.

Today in the car, the conversation went something like this:

Hypatia: Where are we?

Me: We're almost in Dubuque.

Hypatia (2 minutes later): Where are we?

Me: We're in Dubuque now.

(Pause of a few minutes here as I'm exiting off the freeway and driving
to the house)

Hypatia (pointing at a brick building): Look, there's another Buque!

Me (confused): A buque?

Hypatia (pointing at another brick building that we're passing): And
dere's another Buque!

Welches...

One of #2's (age 3) friends has just gone to live in America for two years.
She asked where she was and I explained that she'd gone to America, and no
it was too far to visit. She'd flown there in a plane.
Later I heard her explaining to her doll that her friend had:
"gone with an-egg-in-car" in an aeroplane where she had to wave her arms up
and down. I asked her if that was how plane's flew and she said yes,
everyone has to flap their arms while on the plane to make it fly!
Debbie

-Andrea Baker (mom to Hypatia, age 2 and 1/2, and Andrico, age 14)