The Firefighter Boots

Kade, our second child, can be so funny sometimes.  He's only 2, and he's really talking a lot now.  You'd be amazed on how good he's at when it comes to identifying objects.  The only thing funny about him is, naming footwear.  Whatever he learned from watching their kiddie shows, he associates them pretty much with everything that looks similar to what he has seen.

Take for instance, his Papa's JOE ROCKET BOOTS, he calls them "Firefighter boots".

One afternoon, when my husband got home from doing errands and was taking off his boots (the kids and I were at the table having snack), Kade saw him and said, "Look, those are Papa's Firefighter boots!"  We didn't get what he was talking about, till he said it again, this time, pointing at his father's pair of boots.  The way he said it actually made us laugh.  Not in a making-fun-of-him way, but because it sounded so innocent and cute.  Sometimes, he'd even call his Papa, a Firefighter, just because of those boots.  Anything that looks like boots, to him, they are the same. 

They have watched this episode on Barney, where they took the kids to a fire station to meet Firefighters and learn about their job, and I'm guessing, that's where he got it from.  No matter how many times we sit there and correct him, he'd insist that they are what he calls the Firefighter boots.  We gave up!  (Hehehe)  For now, we'll let him be.  Anyway, he's not saying it wrong.  We know that he'll learn eventually.