At my expense

This afternoon I was home from work while the tile guy worked in our entry. Charlie is my favorite of the workers so far, but nonetheless, he is still some strange guy hanging out in our house. So we decided to head out for the afternoon.

Trying to top Megan's introduction to the Slurpee yesterday, we set off for one of her favorite locals, the A.C. Gilbert Discovery Center. The place has pretty standard exhibits, but Megan is easily amused. Meanwhile, I was totally impressed with A.C. Gilbert himself - the guy went to Yale med school, won an Olympic pole vault gold medal, held world records for most consecutive pull-ups and the long jump, and invented the erector set among other things. Mac was nonplussed by both.

Afterwards we decided to investigate the transition of our closest Mexican restaurant, Ixtapa, into the newly opened Cozumel. Ixtapa was a dump, with no real decor but with good Mexican food. Cozumel's new interior is nicely done with brick lined doorways, an amber faux finish on the walls and tile mosaics; the food, however, was crap.

While eating Megan and I got into some head shaking, face making antics. I was having a great time being goofy as Megan was laughing away. Mac turned to Megan, "Mommy's being silly, huh?"

"Yeah... Crate-zee," Megan replied.

I looked at Megan clueless. Mac ventured a guess: "Crazy?"

"yeah!" said Megan emphatically.

"yeah, mommy is crazy!" Mac goaded.

"crate-zee!" Megan and Mac laughed together, at my expense! But how could I not laugh along, too?


(Note: later I asked Mac if Megan really knows the word 'crazy' -it seems a little abstract and not often used in our house. But Mac says there is a song at library story time that involves "silly" and "crazy." So we think Megan really was saying "crazy", but this was just a random word association with "silly" rather than actual knowledge of the word's meaning. Megan, indeed, has gotten very good at starting the next line of a song for you if you leave a long enough pause. If you sing a line and then wait, Megan can cue you for every line of "twinkle, twinkle" and most of the ABC's, and apparently the silly/crazy song, too.)