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It’s been a little while since I shared some of the boys’ schoolwork on the blog, so here are some papers they brought home:

Of all the things mom does, laundry is forefront in a 6-year-old mind.

This one may require some explaining. They read a story about Owen, a child who wanted to bring his blanket to school but the school wouldn’t let him so Owen’s mom cut the blanket into handkerchiefs so that Owen could have a bit of his blanket at school.

Part of Alpha’s assignment was to think of alternate ways to solve the problem. His solution: don’t go to that school anymore. Your solution depends on if you think the problem is the blanket or the school.

If Mary had been homeschooled, her lamb would not have caused any problems.

Two notes on this one:
1. I’m taking that as a good thing that my child doesn’t know what the inside of a court room looks like.
2. The picture of the city council looks suspiciously like the council as depicted in the Star Wars movies. I should confirm if that was his basis.

Dinosaurs grew larger the longer they lived, so you could judge the age of a dinosaur by its size.

Here’s a handy chart to show you, using metric/SI prefixes, how to gauge the relative size of a certain flying dinosaur.

But that drawing is missing an important part of the pterodactyl. So here’s another version:

I’m sure you won’t forget your prefixes now.

I would have kept going, but there wasn’t room on the image for petadactyl. Plus, the version with the silent P would have been ppetadactyl, which is just silly.

It seems my son has inherited my tendency to take questions literally and answer them as asked (not necessary as intended).

Alpha: What can I do to help with dinner?
Wife: Do you want to set the plates?
Alpha: No, not really.
Alpha starts to run upstairs
Wife: Now why did you ask if you weren’t going to do it?
Alpha: Daddy told me to ask.

It’s March, the start of the spring quarter and therefore time for a change to my WordPress theme.

For this one, you either get it or you don’t.

Expect some tweaks in the days to come.

Side note:
The Commodore 64 started production in 1982.
The Nintendo 64 started production in 1997.
Windows XP 64 started production in 2001.

Which was ahead of its time?
That list is not only in chronological order, it is also in order of awesomeness (starting with the most and ending with the least).

(And don’t bother trying to explain the difference between bits of processor width and K of RAM – I’m talking just about the number 64 here.)

Transcript:
Welcome to the Military Orthopedic Surgery Center
Thanks…I’m here for the tour.

Well, we are glad you are interested in our facility.
Our center is run by two of the most respected surgeons in the area.

They are co-CEOs, and they handle elbows, wrists, knees, and ankles.
We refer to them as our joint chiefs of staff.

And over here are the receptionists.
We split the administrative duties between them

How do I know which one to see?
It depends on which branch.

This is the secretary of the army
And this is the secretary of the leggy.

The End

I was lying on the floor, playing with baby Delta, when Beta started paying close attention to my appearance for some reason. Here are his questions:

• Why is your nose so big?
• Why is your tummy hairy?
• Why is your tummy so floppy?
• Why do you have so many gold hairs?
• Why do you have white hairs in your ears?

And they were all right in a row.

I tried to answer him as best I could, but it was hard to come up with some answers.

• The better to smell you with
• That’s how men are. You’ll get hairy when you are older too.
• Because I haven’t been running during the winter
• That’s what happens as people get older
• Umm… the better to hear you with?

I found a way to get a free car wash for every four trips to the gas station.

It might not be the best quality wash. It might leave some drips and streaks. And it requires some effort on your part. But it is free.

Just take the windshield squeegee and, after cleaning your windshield, clean the side of your vehicle. Every fill-up, do a different side: 4 sides = 1 complete wash every 4th time.

I left the bottom of the door alone, so you could see the before and after.

I know you could do the whole vehicle at once, resulting in a free car wash for every one trip to the gas station. But that would be too obvious.