If you see Kiddo, ask to play the rhyming game. She chooses a word, then we take turns calling out words that rhyme. Or non-words that rhyme. The important part is that things rhyme.
As we played it for a long time yesterday at dinner, I mused, it's sort of like discussing important topics at the dinner table, just with a three-year old. We're talking about things that stretch her mind. It's just that what stretches her, does not stretch me.
It does make her laugh though, which meant I heard a favorite phrase that has been missing lately, "Mama, laugh with me." I did.