Matt Liz Megan & John Our Family

I had a conversation with Megan last week that I’m betting the majority of our grandparents didn’t have to have with their six-year-olds.

We were reading her Sabbath school lesson one evening. It was about creation and we were pointing out that God had created a “Mom” and a “Dad” to be the parents of everyone in the world. She said “Well, sometimes there are two moms.” (She used to go to daycare with a boy who had two moms.) So I said as matter-of-fact as I could, “Yes, sometimes that happens. And sometimes there are two dads.” She looked like she thought that was very strange.

“No, you can’t do math until you’ve eaten your dinner and practiced your piano.”

Our church is doing a summer day-camp sort of thing called Summer Exporations, but it’s in the evenings from 5-8:30 with dinner included, so working parents can participate. It’s been really fun for Megan.

Last night I heard something interesting from one of the volunteers… Apparently Megan won a Who Can Be Quiet Longest contest… Both Matt and I said “OUR Megan???” I tried that in the car once and she didn’t even make it for 30 seconds!

Megan’s been excited to learn how to count to 100. While reviewing a first grade workbook (which she finished in a month with little instruction from us!) Matt was explaining thousands, millions, billions and so on to her.

Yesterday on the way home from daycare, she counted to 100, then continued: “101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109… 1000! 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1006, 1007, 1008, 1009, 1 MILLION!” Then went on that way to billion, trillion and zillion.

“Um… Megan, I think you missed a few numbers.”

Matt got a pink dinosaur water bottle for Megan. I filled it up for her this morning… she came to me just now and showed me that you could see the water level just about at the dinosaur’s mouth. Here was her story:

“When the water is at her mouth, that means she has a fever, so I took her to the doctor. They had to take some out. And they didn’t want her to scratch or bite it, so they put it on her head.” (points to the part where you drink.) “And whenever she tips over, some comes out.”

I have an interesting child.