Home for Fall Break

Please excuse another little brother quote, but being home provides an abundance of them. There’s something about a four-year-old’s way of viewing the world. Somehow, it puts things in a new, fresh light. Here’s Nathan’s bit of wisdom from yesterday:

“It’d be hard to be a mommy and daddy without any kids,” the little guy mused. “It’d be like there were lost parents.”

Intellectuals

Most people in the library are reading books. Passers-by, however, would have observed some abnormal behavior from two sophomores today.

Eyes intent, stance focused, my roommate and I were ... counting. "one, two, three, four ... 42, 43, 44, 45 ... 99, 100!" Yes, counting. Counting words, counting sentences, counting syllables. For our teaching of reading class, we were to determine the readability of eight different books. I wish we could have caught it on film.