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Re College Confidential: I've peeked but it's honestly pretty terrifying! At least our choices will be limited by her age / distance from home issues.

When in the middle of a crying jag, DD6 starts the following conversation:

DD: Mom, you know that document that the king of England had to sign so he wouldn't be so powerful?
Me: The Magna Carta?
DD: Yeah. What did he use to sign it?
Me: Probably a quill pen.
DD: Okay, but how did they make the ink for it?
Me: Uhhhhh...I don't know, can we look it up a little later?
DD: Okay. (goes back to sobbing about whatever it was that was upsetting her)

We aren't quite ready for actually settling down for college but the age and distance from home are things that come into my mind if not hers. I think she still has a few years but she is discussing what colleges near by has programs study space and planets.

When DS6 plays Othello for the first time and beats me in 3 out of 4 games. It is so embarrassing to get soundly beat by a first grader. I am afraid to play games with him. It hurts my ego! Lol!

haha! This made me grin

Need a "like" button!

Think how much character this is building in you.

I though I didn't have anything for this thread, but then I went out in the backyard, and DS was playing in the firepit. We told him not to do this, and he talked his way out of it by deciding to make paint from the charcoal. Proper egg tempera, to be specific. His little brother helped grind the char, and then gleefully made those fold-in-half type things.

They are now very, very dirty.

...when you suddenly realize your 2.5yo understands basic fractions. We were talking about sharing hypothetical ice cream with an imaginary friend and DS volunteered, "I can divide the ice cream in half to share with him."

I don't know whether I was more surprised by the osmotic understanding of "half" or pleased with the social justice of an equitable split.

Welcome to my world. There aren't many games anyone in the family can reliably beat DS6 at. I mean, he does lose sometimes, of course, but he wins more often than any of us at everything, and dominates at certain games (as in, there is NO point my playing chess with him). It's freaky.

I mean, I'd beat him at Scrabble, Bananagrams, or Trivial Pursuit, but that hardly seems fair. Or wait. Maybe it IS!

When your 7 and 5 year old write you Sonnets for Mother's Day and your 5 year old uses concepts like "being loved to death" and references the earth's rotation.

And your 7 year old still, after 2 years is most grateful to us for taking him out of school.