An amusing thing happened when we had Lorenzo's 3rd birthday party this past weekend at Cafe Boo Bah in Boerum Hill (a great place for birthdays, by the way). Lorenzo walked up to the counter to ask for another piece of birthday cake. "Cake, please," he said as he "placed his order". The idea of him placing an order is funny in itself to me. I told him the woman had to cut a piece for him and he asked her, "It's loading...?". This "It's loading?" question gets asked whenever something he asks for is "not ready yet". This is because of our son's exposure to all of the excellent Macromedia Flash games on the great kids' web sites. "It's loading..." is now how he refers to things that are being prepared or are not yet "Ready" yet. If you've seen any animation done with Macromedia Flash, you probably know that this is what you usually read onscreen as the animation intro gets loaded into the browser. So whenever Elmo is loading on pbskids.org, he asks if it's loading, we count the numbers going by on the screen, and then when Elmo appears, he exclaims, "It's ready!". Kids these days. :)