Get on Board the Bus

"Bus!"
That's the voice of my daughter, who recently celebrated her 22nd month on this cherished planet, as she watches a tractor-trailer roll by.
"No, honey.  That's a tractor trailer.  A semi.  Can you say semi?"
"Bus!"
Then comes a school bus.
"Bus!"
"Yes, honey.  That is a bus."
Savannah is beginning to form words and some very small sentences.  However, she needs to get her vernacular straight if she's to make the fourth generation of motorheads in the family.
"Bus!"
"That's a van, Savannah."
"Van...van...van."
"There you go."
She knows words like "truck" and "car", and can use those correctly, but vehicles like box trucks, motorhomes, tractor-trailers, and coal trucks, she hasn't quite figured out yet.  Minivans are even a little tricky.
"Bus!"
Go with what you know, right kid?
Then on the way to go shopping one day, we passed the local school bus garage not far from our home.
"Bus!"
We pointed out how many there were parked at the garage.
She had the time of her life, so excited by the find. 
It gets me thinking that in another three years, she will be boarding one for the very first time as she goes to her very first day of school.
And my mind will flash back to those days when she was saying those one-word sentences...most of them "Bus!"
Will she cling to Daddy and not want to leave, or will she fly out of the house and through the door of the school bus?
Either way, I'll be thinking of one word.
"Bus!"

NEXT WEEK:  The Honey-do List