Right after brushing his teeth, Luke asked me, "Why can we get half of 50, but not half of 5?" Such a wonderful question that we had to figure it out, so I put 5 kleenex on the couch and he quickly found that you can, in fact, get half of 5 by tearing a kleenex in half. We talked a bit about even and odd numbers and he seemed to think that these terms were sensible. I wish he could verbalize more how he thinks about numbers - he tells me he just sees answers in his head.
After dinner he announced (totally out of any related context), "Raha is the only person with brown skin in our family." Raha responded with, "Luke." I started laughing, which of course, made Luke cry. I think he was crying because I simultaneously corrected him for playing with a big stick in the house. We did have a talk about all the ways that each person in the house is different than everyone else.
Now I'm editing this post - bedtime reading, and he asks, "What are the 7 seas?" Actually a good question.....Mom tried to help him find the answer on a globe, and we couldn't figure it out. Thanks to Wikipedia, we now know that there are lots of answers to that question. The most common contemporary answer, they say, is the N. Atlantic, S. Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, N. Pacific, South Pacific, and the Arctic Ocean. In Medieval times, it was the 7 seas in between Africa, Europe, and Asia. Who knew?
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