Emerging consciousness

I really should have blogged this immediately after it happened, because the details have already escaped me. At dinner, Oliver was quizzing Mimi and me about what constitutes the groups known as 'people', 'boys', 'girls' and 'kids', and how they overlap. I think he understood that boys and girls are kids and that kids are people, but when I asked him if boys could be people, he shook his head and I thought of him leading a protest asserting that 'Little Boys Are People Too!'.