The tree is still standing.
Mariposa doesn't seem to care for it. Although let's see how she does on a day when she's going to left home alone all day, 'cause that a prime mischief causing time.
Ivan keeps going to it. He points, really touches, the ornaments and says "ball, ball." They as he knows he shouldn't touch the tree, he says "hot, hot." Yet he doesn't desist but continues touching the tree.
Hot, hot has become his shortcut for all things hot, including those that could be hot but aren't, and all those things dangerous.
Since we've picked up on this fact that he uses "hot" for both hot and dangerous, we've been actively trying to install the fear of hot for all the things we don't want him to touch. It still doesn't really prevent him from touching things but we think he does understand the concept.
Two weekends ago when Dora was here with Lorenzo, her three year-old, Lorenzo was somehow throwing himself toward our fireplace and touching it. Ivan, who to my surprise played really nicely with him, got all concerned and kept trying to intervene and say "hot, hot, hot" as if to warn Lorenzo not to go near the fireplace. Ivan was really cute.
Ivan knows the fireplace is hot because on a few occasions that Andy's built a fire, Ivan was very intently following and watching Andy build it.
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