Interesting Words

I'm cleaning up my desk tonight and listening to the monitor as Kiernan falls asleep (fingers crossed). I've just come across a pad of paper upon which I scrawled two conversations from a couple of months ago. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I tend to take notes on our conversations with Kiernan. I'm no different than any other parent in that I find the things my boy says and does to be fascinating. Groundbreaking. And brilliant. I am different from many other parents in that I find it necessary to write every one of these things down.

I can kind of already see in my head an image of him as a teenager rolling his eyes about this. Oh well. It's not stopping me.

Anyway, I found this pad of paper. It's from May 12, 2008. In this post and the next I will share these conversations, or rather conversation snippets, with you.

This first one is really kind of out of the blue. I cannot even frame it with context. All I can do is share what I wrote down, on that day in May. So here it is. [As with most of these dialogues, K = Kiernan, and X = me.]

K: Dad, do you like interesting words?

X: Yes. Do you?

K: Yes. Like 'constellation'.

X: I like 'euphemism'.

K: I like 'weird'. Do you?

Again, I have no real context to give you for this conversation. Sorry about that. I share it with you only because I find it incredibly amusing. And I'm just so happy and proud that he loves words so much.

I just love that.