I'm a Forklift

At dinner tonight, Elijah spontaneously held his arms out straight, elbows bent at a ninety degree angle, and announced, "I'm a forklift."

It took me a second to realize what he said, and then assumed he had seen this on a show or movie. "Where is that from?" I asked.

He then moved his plate aside revealing his construction placemat, then pointed at the picture of the forklift and said, "Forklift."

Now him knowing a forklift is nothing new, but it just struck me as surprising to see him role play an inanimate object. Maybe he had seen that somewhere before, but I'm constantly amazed at the new things he learns.

(He also put together a 100 piece puzzle tonight. I did a lot of the outside edges, but that's still over two-thirds that he did by himself).