Funny Things Kids Say

As I sat on the couch reading a Supreme Court opinion in a very boring case, I was suddenly distracted by a conversation Morgan was having with nobody in particular. She is like me and can talk to a wall if she has to. She was a little distressed about the weather outside. It was a warm day that had become cold as the sun was going down. She said, "now that it is night the ground will get wet. Then vapors will come up from the ground into the air. Vapors-that's water in the air. And the clouds will suck up all the vapors and when they get full the clouds rain." I was so impressed. Go public education!!! Who knew?! I made a comment about how she must really like Science. She looked fairly perplexed and said, "I like Science, and dramatic play, and computers, and writing." I don't know the process of learning to read very well, but she has to be close. She knows all of her alphabet letters and nearly all the sounds now. We had name tags on at church today and a little boy next to her had a tag that said Mark. She said, hey your name starts with the same letter as mine. She can spell all the words she sees around her so I've been trying to teach her what those crazy letters mean. So, she knows Mom is spelled m-o-m. We sounded it all out. I can't wait for her to read. Her math skills are so awesome too. She saw some plastic chairs that had 6 rails each on the backs. She counted each and said, "both chairs together have 12 rails." Crazy crazy.