Saturday, November 10, 2012

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)