Blue's Clues

I thought I'd try and blog about how much my son Jason is in love with "Blue's Clues." If you aren't familiar with this kid's show, here's the basic run-down: Real-life Steve has a cartoon puppy named Blue, and every episode they play "Blue's Clues" to figure out what Blue wants to do, eat, play, etc. Blue leaves a blue paw-print on three different items, to indicate that its a clue. Throughout the show, they find a clue, draw that item in Steve's handy-dandy notebook, and when we have all three clues, Steve sits down in the thinking chair and we figure out what those three clues are trying to tell us.

Well, Jason found a little notebook, which is now his Handy Dandy Notebook. "Ti-ee Ti-ee Wotebook!" as he proudly calls it. He has a few thinking chairs ("pinking chairs") that he has claimed both at his house, and at Grandma and Grandpa's. He loves to sit down and pretend to draw. It usually begins with "Okay, so..." and usually ends with a request for Mommy to help him draw a cactus, choo-choo, pawprint, Steve, puppy, the gym, whatever he comes up with at the time. Here is a picture of him drawing himself some clues.
However, he doesn't just make up his own clues. He finds them all over the place. I am amazed at where he finds things shaped like a pawprint. We'll be out and about at the store, and all of a sudden he is pointing excitedly and proclaiming at the top of his lungs, "A Clue! A Clue!" It sometimes takes me a minute to realize what he is referring to, but sure enough, there is something resembling a paw print (i.e. a big circle with 3+ smaller circles above it) that he has found. His perspective and observation amaze me. If you are looking for paw print clues, you can find them just about anywhere (the dirty spot stains on my unmopped kitchen floor, the bubble formations in the bath, the actual underside of a dog's foot, etc.) It's made me wonder how true this is of things other than pawprints. such as blessings. How many blessings are in my life, waiting to be discovered, but I don't notice them, because I'm not looking for them? Needless to say, my two year old has taught me that it's pretty hard to find what you aren't looking for, and with the right perspective, a whole world opens up.

Anyway, here are some pictures of different clues he has found that have amazed me. Note the backs of the frogs in his bedtime story, the chicken shaped head on my fast food cup, and the blue information on the paper box. Can you spot the clues as well as Jason did?