Why...why...why...how?

Yes, our little toddler has finally hit the "why" stage. She constantly and continuously asks why to everything. Whether it is in response to "time to get ready to go" or to "we can't drive until the light turns green," she is always asking why. Sometimes it is easy to answer - although she just asks why again, and sometimes it's a bit trickier to give her a good answer.

For example, she doesn't like when the car stops moving, so is constantly saying "drive momma, drive!" When we pull up to a stop sign or stop light, she starts in with "drive momma, drive!" almost immediately. So when Derek or I try to explain that we cannot drive forward when the light is red, she wants to know why.  And trying to explain traffic laws to a 2yr old is not easy. Although I learned last night that a complete and detailed answer is better than a simplified one.

Every night when we tuck Addison into bed, we turn on her mobile -  it plays music and projects a rotating jungle scene on the ceiling. So last night when the mobile came on, instead of asking why the jungle animals were rotating around, she asked how (her second favorite question). I was about to respond with something generic like "with batteries" when Derek goes into a rather complicated explanation including lenses, light projection, and a motor creating the rotation. 

And it worked! Instead of asking why or how again, Addison just said "oh!" and that was that. Amazing. It kinda reaffirms my thought that she may end up an engineer just like her daddy. And I'm definitely going to have to remember this and work to embellish my explanations; maybe I'll get an "oh" next time.