"The trees, damnit!"

A has discovered that books are made of words and words are made of letters. He spends a lot of time pointing to signs and saying, "A for me!" But this also means he wants his texts strictly adhered to without deviations when you read them, and he follows along with a finger to try and figure out what's going on.

Recently, I was nursing L while A held The Lorax. I couldn't quite hold the book and read it to him how I was sitting, so we were turning pages while I asked A to tell me the story. He's getting good at story telling, so this was fine. We turned to a picture of the Lorax knocking on the Once-ler's new office door, and I said, "What's the Lorax saying here, A?"

"He says, 'The trees, damnit!'"