Einstein

I went upstairs to go to bed last night and found Wm like this when I checked on him:

Could he BE any cuter?

Then, I know I am following up a "my kid is a genius" post with another "my kid is a genius" post.  But, take my word for it, when your kid is a genius...you want to talk about it.  I decided that Wm is the next Einstein. Totally misunderstood at school.  Super genius.  Crazy hair. CHECK.  So, Wm comes home from school today with this paper that he has written a math problem on he said he "invented."  Here it is:

Basically, 1-2= -1 (or, in Wm-speak "1 below 0").  YEAH!  First, I thought it was hilarious that Wm thought he invented negative numbers.  Then, I thought it was FRICKING AMAZING that my kindergartener understands the concept of negative numbers!  When I was introduced to the concept of negative numbers (in, what, 5th grade?), my brain was fried.  I was like, "THIS IS SCREWING WITH MY REALITY!"  Meanwhile, Wm invents them in kindergarten.  I called Steve when Wm got home from school all in a tiz like, "OUR SON HAS INVENTED NEGATIVE NUMBERS, MAN!" Steve was mightily confused.  When I explained, he was relatively unimpressed and just goes, "that's my son."  Then he made evil jokes about how I still don't understand negative numbers.  I am pretty sure that Wm is going to seriously surpass my entire mathematical knowledge by 2nd grade.