Is this what our kids will talk about in therapy?

Since we returned home, E has chattered endlessly about our airplane ride, the trains in Spain, and our hotels and apartments. That all seemed within the normal range to me.

Last night, when I was sitting at the computer, he asked to "see suitcases" and then "to play the suitcase game." I thought that he was referring to some sort of computer game he had played with his dad, and said "I don't have that game on my computer" and got him interested in something else.

This morning he climbed up on my lap and tried again "I want to see pictures of suitcases," he said. I offered him pictures of mommy and daddy, pictures of sister D, but no "I want to see suitcases." Finally I opened up ebags.com and started clicking on suitcases. He was delighted for about 20 minutes, naming each one, "that's a suitcase, that's a backpack, that's a bag."

I'm not sure exactly what this means. I’m sure it’s not good. Our obsession with travel (and with just the right gear) has scarred E for life. It might be early enough to save little D if we’re careful, but we probably won’t be.

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