Samuel Has a Question

Curious Sam

It's pretty cool having quirky kids.  They are imaginative and funny, often adding a totally unexpected dimension to the conversation.  They also love information and Samuel, in particular, has a lot of questions.

"How long would it take to count to one million?" he asked.  So we figured it out.  First we estimated how long it would take to say each number.  We figured three seconds each (considering how long it takes to say 277,349, for example), and determined the entire experience would take 3,000,000 seconds.  There are 86,400 seconds per day.  It would take 3.47 days to count to 1,000,000.  That's three and a half days, assuming you don't need to eat, drink, sleep, sneeze, or (pardon me) use the bathroom.

Samuel's questions come out of the blue.  One day, with the whole family in the car, Samuel asked, "Is there any boy, that you know of, that has bypassed the 'girls are icky' phase of life?"

We recently heard someone say, "I came, I saw, I conquered!"  So Tom repeated it in Latin, vidi, vini, vinci, and wrote it down for us.  Only thing, the v sounds like a w, so you actually say weedy, weanie, winkie.  Samuel thought for a moment then said, "Was the artist actually named Leonardo da Winkie?"