The Crow and the Toddler

The Crow could count, and the Toddler could too. And the Crow could speak, and the Toddler could, too. The Crow and the Toddler went to a contest. "Tell me the color of this," and both the Crow and Toddler could. "Open this jar," the Crow could, but the Toddler couldn't. Thus, the Mad Scientist over the project said, "Alas! The Crow is more intelligent!" Yet, the Toddler sung a hymn and old Nursery Rhyme, and the Toddler painted a picture with his finger. And the Toddler also stacked upon themselves, blocks in great number. And the Toddler also could do everything the Crow could, save open the jar to get to the food. The Crow then rebuked the scientist, "Look to this child, what else it can do, and not just complete menial tasks to get fed. For the Child is a wonder to all Heaven, and I but a Crow that can name the colors of ornaments, and know shapes and know what is bigger. The Child, on the other hand, does all this and more, and so I can surf on a piece of bark, and play in the snow, the Child does this, too. What the Child does that I do not, is it bears the image of God."