Lissa's family seems to have more intelligent conversations than we do at our house but I still thought I'd share a science conversation that took place today in the vehicle.
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Princess' Biology class is dissecting this month.
Today they dissected a cow's eyeball. Ever my beautiful, delicate dancer Princess gave a rapt, enthusiastic, explicit narration and description of the whole dissecting process. Next week they do cats. I listened politely and attentively, refusing to give in to the desire to let my throat lurch forward.
I never worried about doing dissections with my oldest. He's a hunter/fisherman. He can dissect a squirrel, rabbit, bird, or fish before I can even figure out how to kill it. He can tell you where everything is and what its purpose is. He could be the Biology teacher and will be the Biology teacher with the other children.
For GameBoy and DQ, we haven't gone beyond online dissecting. We prefer our animals live. We enjoy viewing nature from our French doors and nature walks too much to dissect them. But, for the sake of biology, online is much neater and less messy.
Anyway, I digress...
So we're traveling down the road and making pit stops at the library to drop off books and at the dance studio to purchase recital tickets and we're talking about dissecting cow eyeballs. Princess informs me that one of the girls in the class wants to become a mortician.
And because my train of thought is erratic, I say, "You know, that's why the mother in the Addams' Family is named Morticia. It comes from some Latin word that means death."
Not having realized this, Princess asks, "What about the daughter Wednesday? Because it's hump day and everybody hates hump day?"
"No, no, no!" I laugh at her silliness. "Remember the old nursery rhyme?"
"Oh," says Princess, "Well, what about Pugsley?"
"I'm not sure," I reply. "But Uncle Fester is obvious. You know how a sore festers? And Lurch. You know what lurch means."
"Yeah. Well, what about the dad. What was his name?"
"I don't remember."
And that gives you a little insight into our family's tit-for-tat. Not that elegant or scholarly of a conversation but we covered a tiny bit of Latin, a tiny bit of poetry, a tiny bit of science, and an even tinier piece of knowledge.
LOL! This is much more our speed too - except it's usually more full of us trying to explain and the kids meeting us with blank stares! ;-)
Posted by: Amy | May 13, 2006 at 05:10 AM
It's Gomez!
LOL!
Posted by: Alice | May 17, 2006 at 11:53 PM