How You Know You're Raising A City Kid

Milo: I can make a LOT of different noises with my mouth.

Steven: Are you going to be a beatboxer?

Milo: No.

Me: Do you know what a beatboxer is?

Milo: Yes.

Me: What is it?

Milo: It's the person in hip hop who makes all the different sounds.

Me: How do you know that?

Milo: They had a hip hop performance at my school.  But there wasn't a DJ, it was just the b-boys and a beatboxer.

Me: What's a b-boy?

Milo: You know.  It's one of the guys who does the dancing.

Long Overdue For An Update

We've been running around over here, but an update is coming shortly.

The Science Saga Continues

Milo: I wish they would teach real science in science class.

Me: What's real science?

Milo: Like chemistry, biology, dissection.

Me: What kind of science do they teach instead?

Milo: Paperwork.

Indoctrinate them Young

I don't remember what Steven and I were talking about prior to the exchange below, but it was probably football, politics, or school.  Whatever it was, it taught Milo the transitive property.

Steven: People are idiots.

Me: Well, that's America.

Milo: America is full of idiots.

Things That Would Work If Animals Were Made of Plastic

Me: So did you have science today? (Milo has had a love/hate relationship with his science class this year, I think due to the fact that he's genuinely interested in science and finds the way it's being taught frustrating.)

Milo: Yes.

Me: How was it?

Milo:  It was great!

Me: Really?  Why?

Milo: We made an ocean and we dumped a bunch of plastic animals into it, and then we poured oil on top and we had to rescue the animals and see which ones would live and which would die.

Me: And which animal did you get?

Milo: I got a sea turtle.

Me: And what did you do with it?

Milo: I took a paper towel and patted on top of it's shell and inside it's shell,  But I couldn't really get inside it's shell because it was plastic and not a real sea turtle.

Me: And did it survive?

Milo: Yes, because I got to it quickly.

Me:  So what did you learn from this?

Milo: (thinking) How to cure a fake oil spill?