Friday, October 19, 2012

Fifty Dollar Words


      Adam and Drew were spending a quiet evening with my mom one night. Just the three of them. She was reading while they were jumping on the trampoline not far from her. Adam needed a drink and told my mom about it. She in turn asks him what the magic word was and he answered her. “Abracadabra?” And she was expecting it to be ‘please’. Silly woman.


      When the twins were born Alexander had just turned five. He has always had a big vocabulary and understands the words he uses. He mainly was around adults and his father and I have a habit of throwing around fifty dollar words anyway. After a particularly hard night of our boys being awake all night and mom being dead on her feet and miserable Alexander shakes his little head and says to me “Our babies are nocturnal.” A truer statement was never uttered in the history of the world.
 
      We were driving to Alex’s all-band concert the other evening when we passed a cemetery. Adam just shook his little head and said "Wow, that sure is a whole lot of dead people." It made it sound as if there was just heaping piles of dead people lying out in the open with no regard for order. Sometimes he is incredibly literal.

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