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    Math Time

    September 29th, 2013

    A chat with G at bed-time today:

    G: Mommy, Dad and I did Ma-ma-ma-Math today[he’s been trying to sound out the first letter of things more these days]
    G: If I have 15 things, and I gave away 11, how many will you have?
    Me: Me? How many will I have? I don’t know. Did you gave ME your 11 things?
    G: Huh?
    Me: Well, If you had 15 things, and you gave away 11, and you gave them to me, then I’ll have 11. Or are you asking, if you had 15 things, and you gave away 11 how many YOU would be left with?
    G: (silence)

    Yeah — I ruined the moment there, didn’t I? Semantics: hard to keep out of the way 🙂

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    Only a year. Really?

    September 29th, 2013

    I was looking through our last year’s holiday cards and noticed that just last May I had written that S2 said his first phrase: “Al-da!” (all done). Today he was entertaining a young lady in her 20’s with a long tale of what he likes and what he doesn’t. He was babbling ON and ON (a little bit like the dude that doesn’t get the hint she’s not that into you), and I stood there watching amazed at how far he’s come. Amazed that the human body, in just a year’s time, makes a baby become such a little person. It’s mind-blowing, really.

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