Thanks to his fondness for Blue's Clues, Owen will sometimes announce, out of the blue and related to nothing that we are doing at the time, that he needs a _________. He always expects us to know exactly what he is talking about and how to make it. :) We've made "contraptions" that wave hello and goodbye, "signs" (which are really name labels for people and objects), an "experiment" to create a tornado, and our latest: a "box car." Shea thought Owen meant a real box car, like kids make until he started saying we needed to find a box to make it. I found a small box, and he said -- how will I fit in it? So, we figured out that he wanted a box he could sit in. The resulting car we made looked pretty good until Owen asked where the handles were to hold it, and demonstrated what he meant. I then realized which Blue's Clues show he was getting this from, and that he wanted to be able to walk around holding the car around his middle, so I had to cut a hole in the bottom of the car AFTER we had already assembled it. ;-P All weekend it has been a series of requests for additional cardboard items -- a school bus, a gas station and Buzz Lightyear wings "like Elijah has" (Owen's friend).
