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Jun. 26th, 2008 07:40 pmLeif read a word (other than his name) the other day. Treefrog.
He has this picture dictionary, and was copying words out of it. One was a treefrog. He has a shirt that says "I <3 Trees" (except with an actual heart, not netspeak), and he recognized the word tree from that, and figured out frog from context.
Yesterday he was looking at my microbiology book, and wanted me to tell him about every picture, which was fun and cute for the first 100 pages (with multiple pictures per page) or so, irritating after that, and downright annoying when the picture was a diagram of the Kreb's cycle or something instead of a nicely labeled picture of a cell.
He was fascinated by the gory pictures when we got to the section on diseases*.
Then we got to the reproductive section. He pointed to the picture of a female. "What's that?"
"That's the uterus, where the baby grows inside the mommy."
"You're joking me!"
"Nope, it's true."
"Wow!"
Then on the next page... "What's that picture?"
"Um.... that's a disease called syphillus."
I'm not sure he noticed it was on a penis, and I didn't explain that part. The scary STD discussion can wait until he has a better grasp of the process in general.
I went to the thrift store today and picked up a wonderful General Biology textbook for him for his birthday. Lots of cells and body parts and animals and everything else he finds interesting.
But hopefully not much syphillus.
*He's a child after my own heart. I also found a pediatric nursing textbook while looking for his biology textbook, and have been gleefully reading about diseases all evening. 2000 pages of diseases for $0.50 - can't beat that!
He has this picture dictionary, and was copying words out of it. One was a treefrog. He has a shirt that says "I <3 Trees" (except with an actual heart, not netspeak), and he recognized the word tree from that, and figured out frog from context.
Yesterday he was looking at my microbiology book, and wanted me to tell him about every picture, which was fun and cute for the first 100 pages (with multiple pictures per page) or so, irritating after that, and downright annoying when the picture was a diagram of the Kreb's cycle or something instead of a nicely labeled picture of a cell.
He was fascinated by the gory pictures when we got to the section on diseases*.
Then we got to the reproductive section. He pointed to the picture of a female. "What's that?"
"That's the uterus, where the baby grows inside the mommy."
"You're joking me!"
"Nope, it's true."
"Wow!"
Then on the next page... "What's that picture?"
"Um.... that's a disease called syphillus."
I'm not sure he noticed it was on a penis, and I didn't explain that part. The scary STD discussion can wait until he has a better grasp of the process in general.
I went to the thrift store today and picked up a wonderful General Biology textbook for him for his birthday. Lots of cells and body parts and animals and everything else he finds interesting.
But hopefully not much syphillus.
*He's a child after my own heart. I also found a pediatric nursing textbook while looking for his biology textbook, and have been gleefully reading about diseases all evening. 2000 pages of diseases for $0.50 - can't beat that!
