Amusing Over-Intellectual Kid Vocabulary Post #387

Yesterday, while being fitted for her latest appliance, Larkin had to repeat herself three times before her orthodontist understood what she was saying... mostly, I think, because he was not expecting her to say it: "The friction created by your grinder caused the ends of the wire to heat up."

Last week, Larkin and Finn were chatting up a woman they met down by Bear Creek. She explained that her dog had been bred as a water dog but he refused to go in past his knees (or whatever that joint is for dogs). Finn exclaimed, laughing, "Apparently that dog just doesn't know he's buoyant!"

Our world is currently post-apocalyptically filled with smoke due to uncontrolled forest fires. We were in the car, on our way to an indoor play destination. Finn, wishing we were going to play somewhere OUTdoors: "I bet if we circumnavigated the world we could find somewhere less smoky to play."

In the car again, Emile was talking about an NPR piece he had heard on a mash-up of Kafka's Metamorphosis and Dr. Seuss. Finn was having a hard time with the concept of metamorphosis for some reason and we were trying to explain its meaning. He finally had a head-slapping a-ha moment: "OH! You mean transfiguration!"