When we drove up to New York for the holidays, one of the big themes was license plates. Nana and Pops gave them a portable map that you can track license plates on for the car ride and that got Jamie's attention in a big way. So we watched for plates the entire way and made it back having missed only Wyoming and Hawai'i. Jamie got a little obsessed, as is his way, and would ask at the beginning of every day whether I thought we would see Hawai'i that day. So now as we drive around Houston he is still doing it and more or less every day brings a list of interesting states he has seen. This often prompts him to wonder what all those people are doing here in Texas. This then prompts me to wonder sometimes what we're doing in Texas, but that's a different story.
Connor's interaction with this is a little less intense, but he's into it because Jamie's into it. But he can't recognize/read the plates as well and this leads to frustration, which in turn leads to fabrication. Connor basically just makes stuff up, so he'll claim to have seem some obscure state that none of the rest of us saw. He also makes up state names. He came home from school claiming to have seen a "Sensake" license plate. Even Jamie has learned most of the time to just go along with it, because if you try and question Connor about whether he really saw this, he becomes an ANGRY bunny, and nobody wants that. Connor hasn't quite tried it with Hawai'i yet, I think sensing that the stakes are too high there and that Jamie is likely to be unable to resist calling him out on that one.
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