The creature from the black lagoon

Last night Max was struggling with falling asleep. He was scared that the creature from the black lagoon was under his bed. We had a long talk about it, all was well and then he asked: Mom, were you ever afraid of the dark when you were little?

In fact, I was. I told him about how my dad built my bed up high so I could store all my toys underneath. At night I was afraid there was an alligator hidden behind the toys. I used to start at one end of my room and run as fast as I could and leap up onto the bed without my legs hanging down so he wouldn't be able to grab me and pull me under.

Uh mom, he said in a matter-of-fact way, alligators are not nocturnal so they wouldn't be waiting for you at night under your bed.

Ok, but I am not the one who believes in the creature from the black lagoon!!

Are you smarter than a 3rd grader?

We just got back from Washington, D.C. with the boys and I am amazed at how much they really do learn in school (and how much we forget)!

While walking around on our first evening in the city, we came upon a statue from behind. I looked up at it and said: I wonder who that is? Max quickly announces that it is Ben Franklin. How do you know it is Ben Franklin? I ask.

Max replies: I recognize him by his hair! |-{



While walking up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, I hear Max telling a grandparent about how these are the steps where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. You know, he continues, the one that says: I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character...? That speech. :-o



And finally as we were walking into the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum I mentioned that we would see the very first airplanes ever made – you know, the ones that Louis and Clark built? To which Max replies: Uh mom, Louis and Clark rode in a canoe, not in a plane.

Right. I knew that. The Wright Brothers. Of course. <:-|

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