Sam: NEW YORK?
Me: Yes, remember the place with all the really tall buildings?
Sam: YEAH.
Me: Remember how we went to the top of the Rockefeller Center building?
Sam: UH. UM?
Me: That was the building where we went to the top and then we went outside on top and we were really high?
Sam: OH YEAH! MOMMY, WHAT'S ROCKEFELLER?
Me: Rockefeller was the man who built the building. [I had to look it up later to be sure, and it was his son who developed it, but of course, THE Rockefeller is who made it possible, and that's what I meant.]
Sam: WAS HE A GOOD GUY OR A BAD GUY?
Me: He was a good guy.
Sam: WHY, BECAUSE HE HELPED PEOPLE?
Me: No, because he made lots of money by working hard, and because he built that big building.
And I'm sure he *hired* lots of people so they could work hard and make money, too!
ReplyDeleteInteresting she asked, "What's" rather than "Who's" indicating that she didn't realize it was a name. Another person may have only answered, "It's a man's name."
ReplyDeleteJack, Sam doesn't consistently know how to use the word "who" yet. She always asks, "what's that?" when asking who a person is. She may or may not have known Rockefeller was a person.
ReplyDeleteThis is the new iteration of her Persistent Pronoun Problem and I might just have to write a separate blog post about it since I didn't realize it until just now. :)