The Scene: The kitchen, after a particularly messy spaghetti dinner. Laura is doing the dishes while the children lay on the floor looking at Thomas's "Human Body" book (which is a much more advanced book than one would typically buy for a 4 year old, but he loves it)
T: Mommy, what is this? pointing to a rather abstract looking illustration
L: Hmmm, let's see. walks over, and after realizing she has NO idea what it might be, reads the caption. This is a cartilage-making cell, called a chondrocyte.
quiet ensues as the children contemplate this bit of biological wonder
G: Oh! Mommy! Come look at this. What is it?
repeat above situation, with the next caption explaining the illustration of the Organ of Corti (Do you know what this is? I did not. It's in your ear...)
Again, quiet follows, as Laura manages to wash exactly one cup and one knife.
G: Wow! Look at this! What is it, what is it? (pointing at the enlarged image of a taste receptor cell)
T: Gabrielle, that is a ball.
I should've just gone that route in the first place.
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