Rylan's musings of late...

 

 

"What, exactly, do cows DO all day?" (said as we were driving along a pasture)

 

"Ummmm... eat grass, walk around and wait to be milked??"

 

"Well, that's boring.   I don't ever want to be a cow."

 

 

 

 

"Mom?  What's 20 plus 20?"

 

"40."

 

"40 plus 40?"

 

"80."

 

"80 plus 80?"

 

"160."

 

"HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?!?!?  HOW DO YOU KNOW ALL THOSE NUMBERS?"

 

"I studied and practiced my numbers until I had them memorized.  I had to learn them."

 

"Mom, do you still do schoolwork like Jordan and I have to?"

 

"Rylan, there is still so much that I want to learn about... I work at learning new stuff every day."

 

(long, pondering silence....)

 

"Mom?  Can I be like that someday?"

 

 

 

 

"What do those people down there do all day?" (said as we drove past the cemetery)

 

"What???"  (said as I snorted lukewarm coffee up my nose...)

 

"Do they eat?"

 

 

 

"Did we win the Silver War?"

 

(this took a lot of thinking and gathering of context before I figured out she was talking about the Civil War.  Jordan and I had been discussing it in the car, earlier in the day).

 

 

 

"Having a boyfriend is hard work..."

 

(she's 6)