Matching

We lost one of the girls' water bottles on the camping trip in August. I had been making Miranda and Elizabeth share, but when I saw one today that matched Miranda's lunchbox, I bought it. When I gave it to Miranda I said, "Look, it matches your lunchbox!"

Elizabeth said, "Mommy, what is "matches"?

I said, "see how it has horses on it and her lunchbox has horses on it? That means that they are the same and we call that matching. So they match!"

No response. I think, maybe that concept is too confusing.

Then 10 minutes later at home, Elizabeth runs to me and says, "MOMMY! MOMMY! The Dora on my toothbrush matches the Dora on TV!"

Damn, she misses nothing.