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"Take the Wheel" is a great phrase for "you drive."
But what happens if you have never heard that before.
I love it when kids are so literal. Here's what happened.
I took Carrie to the Nashville Adventure Science Center.
Great place, lots of fun for all ages.
There is this donated ambulance there that the kids can play on. Carrie loves buttons and steering wheels, so it's perfect for her. There was a kid already at the steering wheel pretending to drive so Carrie politely waited her turn at the passenger seat and played along.
The boy turned to Carrie and in their pretend play they have to help someone, so he told Carrie, "Hurry, take the wheel" and he was going to move to the back to help whoever was "hurt."
Carrie, never hearing that phrase before, and ever so happy that someone is playing pretend with her, says, "Ok," and gets out of the ambulance. She then quickly scurries over to the side of the ambulance and starts to grab the actual wheel of the ambulance. It wouldn't budge, so she figures it is still pretend play, so she yells back, "got it!"
I had to help her- so I went over and explained what he meant so that she could take her turn in the driver's seat and the pretend play could continue.
But how funny!
Which reminds me of another time when we were driving somewhere, and the kids were so loud Jeff and I could not hear each other.
So Jeff slows down and scolds them, "Hey! You guys are screaming at the top of your lungs back there and Mommy and I can't hear each other, now quiet down!"
It gets quiet for a second. Two seconds.
Then we hear, "Daddy? What are lungs?"
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