Fun in the car!

This morning, as we were driving to daycare (or "school", as we like to say!), Austin was playing with his toy remote control. You'd think, by the way, that if you give these kids the fake, toy version of something electronic (cell phone, remote, digital camera, etc.) that they'd be happy to play with that one and then would leave the real thing alone. Not so much! And why? The toy versions are way more colorful and tend to do more things with better sound effects!

Anyway, so we're driving to school and he's playing with the remote. He was pushing random buttons and making noises. He finally got on a pattern of flipping this dial around. When you flip it, you either get

• the "weather channel", where someone says, "What a nice day!" in either English, Spanish, or French,
• the "sports channel", where a man yells, "GOOOOAALL!", or
• the "music channel", where you hear Yankee Doodle, This Old Man, or The Itsy Bitsy Spider.

He was in a rhythm. He'd flip to the weather channel and listen to the words, flip to the GOAL! and say "Oohhhhhhhh!!!!!" to echo the guy (while looking at me in the rearview mirror), and then flip to the music channel and DANCE IT UP in his carseat! This kept up for a good majority of the ride and it was so funny to watch! Then he started mixing it up -- mixing the "channel" order around. Finally, he threw in more. After listening to the person announce the weather, especially when it was in another language, he'd babble incoherently, mimicking the person!

I tell you, this kid keeps me entertained! We'll see if he's as into this toy on the way home!