I'm listening

"Papa, finished?" Jackson shouted. He desperately wanted to build a "big, big" Thomas Train track with Drew. 

"Yep, I'm all finished," Drew finally said. 

And there was little Maeve over in her high chair doing sign language for "finished" or "all done." All by herself, with no one speaking to her or asking her if she was finished eating, she was doing the sign we had taught her. 

"She heard you say finished," I said, surprised. "See I think little kids hear way more than we think -- why is that?" I rhetorically asked.

"Because they never listen," Drew said. Meaning, they never do what we ask, when we ask it. 

How true.