Mama - Is This For Dogs?

One day as we were carrying in the groceries my son was stopped in his tracks. I walked in and he was starring at the bag of toilet paper that I had just placed on the kitchen table. I asked, "What are you doing baby?" He says to me, "Mama is this toilet paper for dogs?" That stopped me in my tracks and I looked at the design on the front and there was the cutest little dog standing next to piles of toilet paper. It took a few minutes to compute in my head and my son is looking at me very baffled.

Can you imagine what he is thinking? How does Samson (our white lab) actually wipe? Where does he store the TP? Where in the world would he flush it? LOL

Marketing and advertising is what I do every day so this was especially interesting to me. Branding, expensive, edgy ad campaigns, drip marketing...all of it is not lost on the innocent simplicity of children. What they see is what they have to accept as true. Real. But all that marketing and branding works.

My son loves commercials. He could care less about what is on TV until the commercials come on. He told us recently that we needed to buy a new car. I asked why he wanted a new car. He said that he wants the car with the TV's in the back seat that is red. He said "Mama, it comes with fireworks. The commercial comes on when daddy gets home." What is so crazy about that is not only does my three year old son know what time of day the ad comes on the tv, but the next time we drove my a Lincoln dealership he pointed the car out to me. He was exactly right.

I spent a lot of my day paying attention to the big picture, but it takes the mind of my three year old to teach me that real learning comes in the details.

He says so many amazing things, but some really cute ones. For along time he was running around the house saying he was a tomato. I thought, and wrongly assumed, that he was just mimicking Veggie Tales. One afternoon while I was making his chocolate milk he said look mom, a tomato. I said this is chocolate milk hon. He said, "No mama, it is turning like a tomato." I said, "You mean a tornado?" He said, "Yeah, I said tomato." We both giggled. To this day he still calls it a tomato. I don't correct him every time because I think that it is adorable.

I will likely keep this blog open to record the adorable words and evaluations of my sweet son. Enjoy - until next time.