When I arrived at school to pick up Dash yesterday, he was absolutely covered in paint and appeared very consternated. And I was shocked; while this co-op preschool is plenty messy, and while Dash is usually dirty and muddy, this full-body paint job was a first. I waved at him, and he sauntered over, saying: "Mama, there's a problem (which sounds like prob-wem). My paper painted on me."
Further discussion revealed that he was painting in the school's backyard when a gust of wind blew his paper up against his little body. From the looks of it, the wind kept blowing, and blowing, and blowing. Score: Paper, 1; Dash, 0.
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Dash has been talking non-stop about the Monterey Bay Aquarium since our visit there last weekend. Playing around with him, I told him that we could go to the Moonterey (as in the Moon) aquarium next time. He said, "No, Mama, it's the MONterey aquarium, not the MOONterey aquarium."
I said, "Well, I can see the moon from the aquarium, right?"
He got a little testy. "Mama, you know you can't. The aquarium is open during the daytime, and the earth (pronounced erf, of course) is rotated away from the moon in the daytime. The sun is not shining on the moon in the daytime either. So you can't see it, OKAY?"
And with that, I handed him the Nobel Prize for Three Year-Old Astrophysicists and went about my business. 2009 Scoreboard: Dash, 1; Mama, 0.
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