Jeff was excited to go to the playground, but first his mom took him to the kitchen and put him in his highchair. From up there Jeff had a nice view over the kitchen. It mostly already looked the way he knew it, except the highchair of course. "Are you thirsty?" she asked as she put a yellow plastic cup filled with water on the tray in front of him. Jeff noticed he actually was thirsty. He picked it up with both hands and finished it quickly - he actually was thirsty. "More!" he said, and Mommy immediately re-filled the cup. As Jeff drank she took a little plastic package from a cupboard and put it in her purse. Were those cookies? Suddenly he felt a strong desire for a sugary treat. "Cookie!" he exclaimed, pointing at the purse. "Not now, we'll eat the cookies on the playground." his mom said. That didn't make sense to Jeff - why couldn't he have a cookie now and another on the playground? "Cookie?!" he asked again, more pleadingly this time. "No. Come on Cookie Monster, let's get dressed to go out!" Mommy tickled Jeff's chin, making him laugh and distracting him from the cookies.
She brought him to the hallway, where a big stroller caught his eye. He realized he probably wouldn't be walking to the playground himself. It was only five minutes down the street, but with his short legs it would take much longer, and he wasn't sure if he could even walk that far yet. Jeff didn't mind - the stroller looked quite comfortable and he would get to walk and run around on the playground. He tried to climb into the stroller, but Mommy held him back. "Wait, we need to put your overall on, it's cold outside!" She took a thick, blue, waterproof overall from the wardrobe and started to put it on him. Jeff had to sit down to get his legs in, flexible straps were secured around his feet, then he had to stand up as Mommy put his arms in and closed the zipper. The procedure took almost as long as a whole diaper change, so Jeff was losing his patience - he wanted to go to the playground right now! So when Mommy started to put rubber boots on him, he said "No!" and kicked his feet. "Jeff, you can't go to the playground with no shoes on!" she explained as she grabbed his feet, and he saw that actually made sense, so he allowed her to put the yellow boots on him. Finally, she sat him in the stroller and opened the door, revealing their front yard to Jeff. It also already looked much like he knew it, but the bushes were shorter and the apple tree wasn't much of a tree yet and less than three feet tall - just like Jeff himself. Apparently him and the tree would grow up together.
As mommy pushed him down the street, he saw the neighborhood hadn't changed much. He didn't recognize most of the cars, some people had expanded their homes but most houses looked as he knew them - just that everything looked much bigger from his point of view. At the end of the street, they took a left turn and there it was - the playground, with a sandbox, a seesaw, a bench for parents and the big climbing castle with ladders, slides and the swings - including the bright red toddler swing he had hoped for! "Yay!" Jeff exclaimed and waved his arms excitedly as Mommy took him out of the stroller. Finally standing in the playground, he looked around and saw...