Bragging

I feel the need to brag about how smart my kid is...

- While grabbing my Evol (so much better than Kashi!) frozen lunch out of the freezer, Wm pipes up and says, "your lunch is 'love' spelled backward."  I have been eating Evol burritos and Evol frozen meals for years and never noticed that...ever.  Genius.

- Wm wanted to talk about fractions at dinner (dinner conversation is often math-related).  He wanted to do quarters so I asked him what 1/4 times 2 was and he goes, "1/2!"So then I say, "OK, well, what is 1/4 DIVIDED by 2?" Wm thinks for a sec and goes, "1/8!" Genius.

- In the same quarter conversation, I go, "do you know what time it would be if someone said it was a quarter after 1PM?" Wm said, "1:15!" I was impressed, so I threw a hard one at him.  I asked, "What if they said it was a quarter TILL 1PM?"  It took him about 15 seconds of deep thought and he goes, "12:45!" Genius.

- I have been throwing the ball with Wm in the backyard most nights this week and he is getting SO good!!  He has an amazing little arm and can really throw some heat! Takes after his ma!  Maybe there'll be another catcher in the family (I got the job as a kid because I was the only girl on the team who could throw it all the way back to the pitcher and then it stuck).  And, I'm so proud of him because he's not at all afraid of the ball and will run up on it and catch it and/or field it.  He is probably the best fielder on his whole team!  And he is AWESOME at bat!  I knew Wm would be a great baseball player!  I think a Clippers game is in his future!

In other news, I am going to see Wicked tomorrow! Steve is thrilled that he doesn't have to go.  I am going on a "date night" with a friend - out to dinner and to see Wicked.  This is his fifth time seeing it, but my first!  When I asked Steve if he minded if I went he goes, "tickets are expensive." I said, "you don't have to go." He immediately said, "Of course! Go! Have fun!"  Steve would rather die than have anything to do with musical theater.

Meanwhile, Wm has taken to watching PBS documentaries on prehistoric times and is always rattling off facts.  His favorites are poop-related.  He took great delight in informing me that some species or other produced "2 tons of dung per day."