Outsmarted...

So my kids are only 4 and 18 months old, but already they're showing me how dense I can be.

Here are a few shining examples:

In October, Stephanie gave Oliver a pasta spoon that was just a handle with T-Rex shaped head complete with sharp (pasta scooping) teeth. Oliver named in Rana (as in TyRANAsaurus Rex). In an attempt to show off just how smart my son is, I asked the following question: “Olie is Rana a biped or a quadraped?”
Olie: “Niether, Mom, he doesn’t have any feet!”
Can you hear the implicit "DUUHHH!"

That same visit to the Cape, this time bragging about Solvi, I asked while showing her a pig in a magazine, “Solvi what does the pig say?” “Honk zee, honk zee,” she replied. Yes, indeed, upon closer inspection, the pig was sleeping!

Then later in the month while at the Museum of Natural History in New York (we went there 2 of the 3 days), Oliver said: “Mom! I just spied megalocerus on the cladogram!” Say, what?!

And then: Oliver overheard something on the radio about churches and asked Chad what a church is. Chad replied that it was a building that people go to pray in. Oliver replied, "I don't like pray." Naturally this prompted Chad to inquire why. “Because p-r-e-y is what predators kill!”


Ohh and I guess I should put some actual Halloween photos up.