Words

The Boy and I have always played word games like "what rhymes with bean?"

Lately he's been doing different kinds of word associations, such as the word duck that can mean the bird or to lower your head.

Everyday when he gets home from school we go outside to the swingset. He loves to be pushed on the swings, much to his dad's chagrin. "Hey, there's nothing wrong with working smarter instead of harder," I tell dad.

Well today we were sitting there talking. He told me he ate eight oreos. I took this opportunity to use that particular play on words. I said, "You ATE EIGHT. Do you get it?"

"Wow, mom," he replied. "Deep."

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(he didn't really - I counted them)