Driving in the car

Catching up on old posts -- this one is from 4/23


"I want to drive."

We've just arrived home from somewhere. It really isn't important from where we've arrived, just that we're home and we need to go inside.

Now, she wants to drive. This is a new experiment lately. She likes to climb into the driver's seat and start pushing the buttons. When you watch her, she has a level of concentration on her face that I think is only matched by the engineers who construct the space shuttle. She pulls the windshield wiper lever, pushes the seat heater buttons, presses the fog lights. Sometimes, when you move away from the car, you will hear the locks click shut, then open, then shut, then open.

"Keep the doors unlocked Tahlia."

She isn't going to keep the doors unlocked. She will lock them again.

I know this will just be one of those things that she does for a while. Although at this moment, it really is no big deal for her to sit in the car for a little while longer pressing buttons and pulling levers, it will be one of those things that she will want to do when we are in a serious rush to enter the house. I know that this is one of those things that Mommy and I will sit later and talk about how we remember how Tahlia used to sit in the car and "drive."

We definitely will remember tomorrow when we enter the car and the seats are heated, the wipers are on, and people keep flashing their high beams at us because our high beams and flood lights are on.