It all started when we attended the Trademarks Expo at Joe's work, the Patent & Trademark Office. There were all sort of trademarked characters in full costume walking around, including Popeye and Olive Oyl, the Green Giant, Pillsbury Doughboy, Berenstain Bears, Idaho Potato, Dennis the Menace, Geico Gecko, and more. The boys were fascinated with all of the characters, but one in particular caught Caleb's eye. "Mommy," said Caleb as he pointed to Betty Boop in her shimmery red dress, "I love that lady!"
A few weeks later we were at Mimi and Papa's house when one of those ridiculous comedies came on the TV. The movie had just started and we weren't paying close enough attention to discriminate whether it would be appropriate for little boys. Well, it wasn't long before the screen was displaying a young scantily-clad woman wantonly leaning out of an open window. Eyes wide with wonder, Caleb said, "I love that lady!"
Then, not long after Joshua and Caleb's 5th birthday party that they celebrated with their preschool friends and their families, Caleb told me, "Mommy, I love Konstantine's mom." I asked him if he loved some of his other friends' moms, and he was sure that he did not. Only Konstantine's mom.
We trust that as Caleb matures, he'll learn to take some other qualities into account, such as character and personality, when deciding whom he loves. Not that his aforementioned love interests lack good character or personality, but I'm pretty sure that was not the criteria Caleb used when he decided that he loved them!
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