Conversation this afternoon

We were talking about alignment of the spine since we just visited our chiropractor.

I was telling C that sports causes misalignment in the spine because many sports are contact sports. C said, "I know what 'align' means." I explained misaligned is the opposite of aligned. C replied nonchalantly, "so 'mis' is another prefix that defines the word "not", then?" I told him, "that's right, nice thinking!"  I was kind of stunned at his vocabulary… I don't think I knew the word 'prefix' or 'defines' at age 7.

School Project

School asked each kid to decorate a plain dino with whatever they wanted; cotton balls, pasta, etc. C wanted to do rainbows. It's a collaborated project where I did help. We think it looks pretty cool!

Thinking outside the box

C's homework asked, "What would you do if you had a money tree?" C's answer was, "I would use the money from the tree to buy more money trees."(!) At age 7, I would NOT have thought that way.  I would simply have thought about what I could buy with the money, like candy and toys.  He continues to amaze me!