Driving down country roads in the winter with two small boys is not for the faint hearted.
After talking my ears off, both of them, and asking ten thousand and two questions, Blynken suddenly asked me how many more turns we had to make before we got to our house. I had to stop and go over the route in my head.
"Three more turns and then our driveway," I told him.
"But we turn into your driveway, too, right?" he asked.
I agreed that we did, indeed, do that.
"Then that is four turns, " He said. You should have just said 'four turns.'
"Right you are, my precise little man," I said.
"What does that mean? Decise, I mean, recessed, I mean priced, well whatever you said?" he asked.
"Precise," I said, and enunciated it with him a few times until he could pronounce it properly. "What do you think?"
"It means I talk too much," he said, as somebody who may have heard this before.
I had to laugh, but I told him that wasn't it. He then guessed that it meant he asked too many questions, wanted to know too much stuff, learned too much, or wondered too much.
I told him that it meant none of those things, and there was no such thing as wanting to learn too much.
"Well why," he asked, reasonably, " won't you tell me what it means?"
"Because," I told him with a grin as I winked at him in the rearview mirror," I like to keep you guessing."
I think I had almost sixty seconds of silence from that one, then he concluded, "I will just ask somebody else at your house when we get home."
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Of course you know this one:
ReplyDeleteI keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.
I let them rest from nine till five,
For I am busy then,
As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,
For they are hungry men.
But different folk have different views;
I know a person small-
She keeps ten million serving-men,
Who get no rest at all!
She sends'em abroad on her own affairs,
From the second she opens her eyes-
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!
The Elephant's Child
I did know that one- but I had forgotten all about it. Thanks for reminding me. I just read it to Blynken, and he wanted to know if this was about him during movies (when the questions increase exponentially)
ReplyDeleteI like how he says both "your house" and "home". Clearly it IS both to him! ♥
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