Riding in Cars with Toddlers

What you could have actually heard this past Thursday night in my car:

[driving down a busy city street - 3 lanes in either direction and it's dark outside and there are stoplights about every block - we pull up to an intersection and stop]

From the backseat: "Go, mama, go!!"

I say: "Pumpkin, do you see that light up there? What color is it?"

She says: "Umm................Bwown!" [at which point the light immediately turns green] "Umm...Gween!"

I say: "That's right!! It just turned green - and that means we can GO! Before, it was RED, not brown - and red means we have to stop and wait for it to turn GREEN before we can go again."

[next intersection - stopped]

She says: "GO! Mommy, GO!!"

I say: "What color is the light this time?"

She says: "Umm....... WED!!!"

I say: "YES, very good - and what does red mean?"

She says: "Ummmm.......................... Sanna Kwaus!!!!!"

[i laughed all the rest of the way down the street - we hit ALL the green lights after that!!! (thanks, Santa!!)] ...osm