Look Mama!

A little background – BB loves Blue’s Clues. He recently got some handy dandy notebooks of his very own. In case you’re Blue’s Clues illiterate, the basic plot is that Blue (a dog), leaves paw prints on 3 things to mark them as clues for whatever the topic of the day is (more or less), and his human draws the clues in his “handy dandy notebook.” After they have 3 clues, they sit in the thinking chair and figure it out. So…BB decides to take his handy dandy notebook with us on a trip running errands – you know, to look for clues. Yeah, good luck with that, kid.

We pull into the parking lot at Big Lots, and BB gets VERY exited.
“Look Mama!! A CLUE!! Need mine NOTEBOOK!”

I’m thinking…Oh, how cute…he’s pretending he found a clue. So I say…
“BB, did you find a pretend clue?”
“No, Mama, a CLUE a CLUE” and he points in front of the car.

Lo and behold…a clue…

In case you can’t tell from the picture, this is an animal clinic with paw prints on the front. BB decided that the clue was “a wall,” so we drew a wall in his handy dandy notebook. He was so proud about finding the clue.

Later, we went to Target, and Dada took him to the pet stuff aisles so he could find 2 more clues. He found a jar and a pillow with paw prints on them, and we drew them in his notebook. Of course, I have no idea what sort of end game you get when the 3 clues are a wall, a jar, and a pillow, but he didn’t really care so much about that (though we did go home and sit in the thinking chair and think..think…think…)