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Have only seen bits and pieces of this case on the news, so don’t know details, but sure had questions about how the little 2-yo knew what a rolled-up rug looked like, ya know?

I’ve only seen people carrying big rolled-up rugs a few times in my long life, so if someone abducted Jessie by rolling her up in the comforter off the bed, what made the baby think she was rolled up in a rug?

It’s remarkable and wonderful that he was that observant, but I just wondered how in the heck he made that connection. Would a child that young have seen rolled-up rugs a lot in his little lifetime? Like at Home Depot or a Carpet store or something? It amazes me.

Maybe they had new carpet laid recently, so it was more top-of-mind than I’m thinking it was. I just don’t know!

The broken table part, I understand - they said the nightstand had been overturned or something. And maybe “mommy was ON the rug” when an intruder knocked her down, instead of IN the rug.

I don’t know what to think, if the cop and his wife have air-tight alibis (or are they each other’s alibi?). If this is Davis’s baby that has been found, that’s wonderful! But still a puzzle piece. I hope to goodness there is a decent resolution to this.

A relative, the sister I think, said the baby didn’t have a word for comforter, and may/did call it a rug. The comforter (rug) was missing from the bed, which was astray, and the lampshade missing from nightstand (table), and knocked over (broken).

Sister’s translation of 2 yr old Blake’s language in parenthesis.

Could be it was *Mommy was on the rug*.

My son was very verbal BY two. You could carry on conversations with him and he would use complete sentences. What was very enlightening about that was that it showed to me that two year olds know a whole heck of a lot more about what’s going on than most can verbalize. This kid knows what happened. He’s just describing it as he saw it. You could be right about the new rug. It’s hard getting into a toddler’s mind sometimes.

So often, when a toddler gets in trouble, they play the shy, I don’t know what you’re talking about game and won’t answer you. When I was in the church nursery and some kid would start causing trouble and I’d talk to them about it, they’d ignore me and I’d tell them that I knew they understood me and they should listen. You wouldn’t believe the dirty looks I got from two year olds. I know that that’s not ALL of them, but they know more than they let on.

I just hope this wasn’t so traumatic for this kid that he remembers it. It seems like it would be a blessing to forget something like that.

I still suspect the boyfriend. Maybe I’ve watched too many forensics shows, but sometimes even when they have what seems to be an airtight alibi, they were guilty. I’ll bet they’re watching him closely. He knows the system and would know how to cover and how to act better than most.