Watch Out! A Tomato is Coming!!!

For the last couple of weeks Sean has kept randomly shouting out, "Look mommy! A tomato," in a very news worthy voice. He would point, eyes popping and mouth open, and then repeat again, "A tomato." I had no idea why he was so interested in tomatoes or even why he would be talking about them or why he thought he saw one. Does he even know what one is? We don't eat them at our house.

Then while driving in the car the other day I finally figured out what was going on. Chad was talking up a storm on one of his usual tangents of natural disasters. As soon as he mentioned the word, "tornado" Sean said his usual, "Look mommy! A tomato," in his very serious voice. All of a sudden I realized that Sean hadn't been saying "tomato" but that he had been saying "tornado." I also since realized that Sean wasn't just randomly pointing, but was pointing to the clouds. So any time he saw a wisp of a cloud he would be triggered into saying his "Tomato" phrases.

But I suppose it doesn't matter if it is a tomato or a tornado. Any time you see either of them coming towards you - you had better start running in the other direction as fast as you can.

Tomato or Tornado - what is the difference?