funny facebook post from DADA

My son is a genius. 

We come home from a parent-teacher conference (he's doing okay, his penmanship stinks but look at his parents), He spends most (all) of the evening playing three video games, gets through a Curious George book with some help, dawdles in the tub while I try to get some Siri-clone app to work on my Android phone and he tries to engage it in a conversation about video games (we ask it when George Washington was born and it answers "Some time in the 20th century" followed by a request for money), demands a book before bed even though it's 8:50PM. Then reminds me we need to brush our teeth (yes, I'm a grown man. If I have to be) and then calmly asks me what A+A is. I tell him it doesn't equal anything. He says "It equals B. B is 2, C is 3, D is 4". This is freaking me out a little. He's in first grade. I don't think they covered variables in my day until like 5th grade. He continues to quiz me "So what is A + B? A+C?, etc ... " I ask where he heard this - since 4 hours ago we were trying to explain to his teacher why it's so difficult to do word problems when the story concerns baby panda losing track of how many bamboo leaves it still has to eat - and he tells me he just made it up. He discovered a fundamental principle of mathematics while policing my oral hygiene. I need to brush more.

listening to the Beatles last week with Aunty Paula

All of us doing a puzzle. I wanted to play him "Honey Pie" since that's what I call him these days. (If I slip and call him what I used to: "Baby," he has a fit. "I'm not Baby; I'm Honey Pie!")

Sometime after Honey Pie, Yesterday comes on. Me and Aunty Pieceee sing along and do the puzzle. Love was such an easy game to play....

"Heeeeeey! Love isn't a game!"


Smart boy. Smart in your heart, darling. Let it always be...

on the phone with Dada last night

"Well, Dada, is there anything you want to talk about 'cause I got nothin'?"


Then after Dada asked what he did today:

"Well, Paula took me to get a haircut and then we went to lunch at this place where no one speaks English (Marissa's Bakery) and we bought a pastry for me and two for Mama and bought Mama a bunch of 'aguas' (guavas) that look like pear-heads."


Earlier in the month when I called over Dada's and talked to him and then wanted to talk to Dada again, he passed the phone to Dada and said, "here Dude, have a party!"

Seven. He'll be seven next month.

weather report

while hiking at BattleCreek Park on a very windy last Sunday:

"Mama, do you know what the tornado is?"

What?

"The KING of the wind."

Before the scary part

at BareBones at Hidden Falls last Friday evening, the stage got dark and quiet, some low horns bubbling along in the background... "Mama, I think the badness is coming..."

Cow eats my phone

and JJ laughs...

"in good we trust"

JJ had to take a magnifying glass to a penny and write down what it said on a piece of paper. When he read it to me, he pronounced "in god we trust" as "in good we trust."

I kind of like it.