Two-year-olds and Johnny5

My precious two-year-old has been obsessed with "Short Circuit" the past few months. He just can't get enough of his "yobops (robots)!" It occurred to me recently that toddlers have a lot in common with Johnny 5 in his "newborn" state right after the malfunction takes place.

• Misunderstanding "euphemisms" or "colloquialisms"
• Constant need for input
• Unbridled honesty

Today in the leaves

It struck me to compare the two the other night at church. JD was sitting between my mother and myself (DH was at work) "reading" a hymnal. He starts flipping the pages, very similarly to the manner in which Johnny 5 skims through the encyclopedias, and says "need input!" DING DING DING! I've watched Short Circuit a million times the last two months, but the next time I watched it with JD, I watched it thinking "what would JD do?" And it's amazing to me how newborn Johnny 5 is so much like a toddler! Or is JD so much like Johnny 5?? I don't know for sure which is the case, but it's true: they are alike!