A four year old I was drawing with pointed out that drawings of fruit and drawings of numbers looked similar. He thought a lot about fruit and vegetables.The first time I saw him he was holding plastic fruit in both hands. For the entire year that we were together, he was usually carrying at least one piece of plastic fruit.
One day he told me he could teach me how to draw dragon fruit. I didn’t know what dragon fruit was. He drew it slowly so I could copy him. Then he showed me how to draw more fruit. One of my favorite things to do is copy kids in real time while they draw.
When he asked me how to spell chayote, I was sure he meant coyote. It took him awhile to convince me there was something called chayote I didn’t know about and you could eat it.