At around age 2-1/2, small people begin to be ready for friendship. My almost-three-years grandson plays with his friend now, instead of just in the same space.
They understand each other’s words. They find the same things funny — leaning way, way back on the swing, climbing back up the chute of the double slide, feeding wood chips to mitten puppets, getting ready to kick the ball down the hill when suddenly it decides to go ahead without you.
I spent a little time Saturday morning with my grandson, his friend, and her mother. I told the mother how much I love the learning-language stage. She agreed and gave me an example of how it can be confusing when one word has two meanings.
She said she had told her daughter that the new baby brother had no teeth you could see but that the teeth were in his gums. Sometime later, when her daughter asked what she was chewing and she answered that she was chewing “gum,” the little girl thought her baby brother’s teeth must be in there.
Two and a half is a time so full of strange new things, she probably didn’t think it was any stranger than anything else.
A WordPress blogger in Australia [subsequent correction: not Australia but B.C Canada in the Okanagan] has another cute story, here.
Suzanne's Mom's Blog 
Yes last month your grandson was very excited after hearing about potty training, it sounded like a train he and mommy and daddy could ride
And so it is. In a way.
That is such a cute story! It is so interesting (not to mention entertaining) to have conversations with young children, they really do see and understand the world through ‘different’ eyes. And thank you so much for the link to my post! It feel’s wonderful to know I have written something someone feels is worth sharing 🙂 Although I actually do not live in Australia (though it would be a dream to) I live in B.C Canada in the Okanagan, which is in it’s own way a dream as well 🙂 again thank you so much for mentioning my post!
Oops. Thanks for clarifying that!
You’re welcome! For a moment I thought I might just live the dream and pretend that I did in fact live in Australia, but then I thought I’d better not 😉