"Mom, watch out, you almost stepped on the dinosaurs!"
It is hard not to sometimes! The dinosaurs in our house are currently enrolled in a new school. It just started, so they are beginning with pre-school. Apparently, every 20 days they go up a grade level, and right now they are only on Day 11. Lined up in order by color, the tiny dinosaurs are off to school with their parent (could be mom or dad, Light told me). They study math, science, and spelling, and there are no tests or homework.
"Do they study reading?" I thought to ask.
"Not yet, maybe in Kindergarten," Light said.
I chuckled. I thought it was pretty cute that they were studying spelling, but hadn't begun to read yet!
"This one is the teacher, mom. Turquoise Jewel." That is Light's favorite dinosaur, because it is a great blue color. It happens to be the smallest dinosaur he has as well. Light whispers to me "He is the teacher because he is the smartest. You can't believe it, Mom. He is so smart he even knows the origin of the big bang!"
"Wow," I said. "Has he told the students yet?"
"Nope, he keeps it a secret. I'm okay with that. But he did tell this dinosaur here, the one with the orange spine."
"Why did he tell that one?" I was curious to know. Light responded, "Mom, he is the SUBSTITUTE TEACHER. He HAS to know!"
Ohh. Silly me! I should have known.
Yeah!!! Finally, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows is here! Light was so excited! He thought it was so cool to be going to the release of book 7 when he was 7 (lucky 7 as he tells it!) He started reading the series in September, when he was still 6, and he completed Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince this week. We went to the midnight party at our local bookstore and couldn't wait to get our copy of the seventh book. So many people were dressed up for the big day, and Light was no exception. He went as his favorite character, Harry Potter, of course! He loved running around, bellowing out spells at other kids, and even found that our lovely fountain by our bookstore makes a great pensive (you gotta read Harry Potter to understand!), if you use your imagination (and Light has plenty of that!). He kept "placing his thoughts" in the "pensive" with his wand. He even grabbed a few random strangers thoughts as well. He was so excited he could hardly contain himself in line to purchase the book, and he got a jump on reading it on the way home, at 1 o'clock in the morning! I was jealous....I couldn't read yet because I had to drive!
