Always expect the unexpected, a phrase that I am coming to know very well. Children suprise you with what they know. You can teach and teach subjects, or lessons all day everyday, thinking that you are just not getting thru to them. Then it happens... like today for instance.

Today on this fine Southern summer day we were having, decided to get into the children's pool. The Entomologist decides that he is going to be "Squid Man", thanks to a Discovery Channel episode about the Giant Squid. The pool was the (pay attention to the spelling here) giMantic ocean, and there were lots and lots of squid that were swimming around. Entomologist says, "Mommie watch out for their beaks, they will bite you!" Then he proceeds to tell me that he has to get the squid out of the giMantic ocean, and starts counting them. 1-2-3-4-5-6, and so on. He passes 20, (I knew he could get to 30) then he passes 40, 50, and gets all the way to 60! Then asks what comes after 60, and I told him, then he says 62, all the way to (trying not to giggle here) 69, and then 60, 60!!! LOL LOL I just didn't think all those "lessons" on counting were sinking in! I thought he was bored with me teaching him how to count. I guess he was paying attention, and decided that excitement and use of imagination was certainly worthy of showing me he knew all along.

Caleb is 4 1/2, by the way.

Go Squid Man Go!!!!