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I realize you've got these drawings saved digitally -- but these need to be displayed! They are so cute. For some of my son's artwork, I bought cheap clipframes (no frame, just glass or plexiglass held together with the clips) and hung them up at home and in my office.

Straight out of Junior's mouth-
Today's gems...

My soon to be 4 year old started playing a game of "What goes with" after reading a book which had riddles.When it came to
What goes with books? His answer -"Bookmarks"
What goes with Theory ? His answer "Albert Einstein"
What goes with eyes?His answer "Pupils and eyebrows"
What goes with the planets?His answer"The sun and satellites"
What goes with Head?His answer "Forehead and Brains"
What goes with a naughty boy?His answer "Naughty Corners"

I love gifted kid humor! Clever and goofy is a combination that simply can't be beat!

My wry, witty and yet serious-minded DS6 walked in after bedtime to find DH and I laughing at a joke at the beginning of an episode of "Boston Legal"

"What's so funny?" asked DS.

"Adult humor," replied DH. (translation: "It involves too much specific knowledge of legal and medical terminology for me to feel like explaining it to you.")

"I sometimes laugh at adult humor," said DS, looking serious and yet wry in a way that seems specific to him, "I am part adult. I am part child."

I LMAO! "What part of you is adult, oh six-year-old? Your little toe?"

"No, my brain, of course," DS smiled confidently.

Naturally, I disabused him of this notion and shooed him off to bed. But what a hoot! That kid amuses me no end!

Your son's comment took me back to a recent episode when DH was reading a book of adult jokes and DS8 wanted to have a peek.DH said "you would not understand half of them anyway" in a bid to shoo him off and DS retorted "Well let me read the other half then." Gotta mind even your commas and fullstops when you talk to these kids....

No doubt!

What slays me is the combination of serious and funny. He knew he was being funny and that there was no WAY I was going to let him think of himself as an adult! But at the same time, he IS such a little man at times like that one--I can totally see the adult he will be showing from within the boy--and he prides himself on that maturity. (Note that these are NOT times like when he cries during his football game. Different times altogether! Ah, that asynchrony....)

Nevertheless there are times when these kids are just such fun! Really, just so much fun!

DS3y11m - Grandma, I want to go to College.

Grandma - You will be there in 14 years.I don't know whether I will be alive to see that.

DS - Oh,don't worry.You will live for a billion years.

Grandma - A billion is too big a number.I can't count that far.

DS- You mean it's close to infinity???

<grin>

DS3y11m doing the antonyms with me reaches the word "cheap"

Myself - Do you understand the word "cheap"?

DS- Oh yes,I do.

Myself (sceptically) - Well, explain the word.

DS - You get things cheap(er) at some shops.

Myself - When you say cheap you mean you pay more or less ?

DS - Less of course.Like at the Millitary Shop (I purchased some stuff at the Army Canteen in India before relocation - 8 months back).Or even the 2 $ shop where I got my Green car with a left hand drive.

Myself (almost falling off the chair) - Well, ok,I bet you don't know the opposite of cheap.

DS - It's "expensive".

I fall off the chair.

Moral - Never underestimate your child especially a gifted one .! & 1 make 11 which is a lot more than 2.

Enjoy

Cian, who was 6 at the time, said to me one day:
"Dad, if I was travelling at the speed of light would I be able to see my shadow?"