Last night, I was carrying Hunter when he started babbling and gesticulating at my tea rack (I have a 4-shelf rack on the wall where I store my boxes of tea.) I couldn't tell what he was so excited about, so I went through various items: the decorative tin with ships on it, the remote for the track lighting, a random box of tea, but nothing seemed right.

Since it was dinner time, I shrugged it off and brought him over to his high chair, but when I tried to put him in it, he wriggled to the ground and grabbed his musical giraffe toy.

"Oh, do you want to play with your toys a bit more before dinner?" I asked.

He showed me the giraffe, then pointed at the television, babbling emphatically. Then he pointed back at the tea rack again, then the television.

At last, I understood. Hunter was very specifically asking to watch the Baby Einstein video on world animals: the item on the tea rack he'd been trying to show me was my Peach Apricot Honeybush Tea (click link to understand why.)

Admittedly, I had been the one to initially show him the similarities between the giraffes on the video, the tea box and his toy. Still, I find his grasp of the concept that these very different representations of giraffes can all be connected very impressive.