Buckling Max into the car seat today.
Mama, can I dive?
No, baby, you're not big enough.
I big nuf.
You're not old enough.
I old nuf.
No, you're only three. You have to be sixteen to drive.
I si-teen.
No, you're three.
Wha yoo nuber, mama?
Forty-four.
I fort-for.
No, you're three.
No. I fort-for.
You want to be little, baby. It's fun being little.
No it not. It not fun.
Silence.
See my bobo, mama?
I can only see it a little bit, baby, mama's driving.
I see it lot bit, mama.
I see bobo on nother knee lot bit too.
Silence.
Mama, can I dive?
I fort-for hunded, ike yoo.
(I forty-four hundred, like you.)