President...or present??

I will tell you upfront that I am not a political person.  But I figured that Bear Cub and I would watch a little of the Inauguration today, to watch a new President be sworn in and in a way, to watch history happen.  He was a bit miffed that when I turned on the TV at 11:00 that I didn't immediately put it on his PBS shows.  He told me so...saying something like, "Want to watch PBS!"  But I told him that we were going to watch our new President on TV and he got quiet as if he were thinking.  

Back pedaling a bit here...we had to hang around this morning because we were waiting for a FedEx delivery.  I told him what we were waiting for and about 30 minutes before the TV was turned on, the FedEx man rang our bell.  So, here we are...with a new box in the house and the "President" being talked about between the lil' man and me.  Back to the story...

Once his little quiet spell was over, he immediately linked the word "President" to the box in the house.  So he was dying to open the box, thinking FedEx had delivered the president ... or in his words at first... "A present for me!"  Oh boy.  Hard to explain the difference between the President and a present to a little boy who absolutely ADORES opening gifts and thinks he deserves them on a daily basis.  ;)   

But he finally got it and eventually had fun playing with the now-empty FedEx box...loading his little cars into it and happily saying, "FedEx gave ME new cars!"  as I watched the happenings on TV.  I kept telling him to look at ALL the people that were there in Washington, saying how crowded it was.  From this, he lined up his cars on his railroad track, promptly told me, "There a lot of traffic!" and kept lining them up.  So I asked him, "Where are all those cars going??" 

His answer:  "To see the new President!!"  

Aha!  Perhaps he did understand the difference --- not a present, but a PRESIDENT.  

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