Knowledge Hodgepodge...

Ethan's brain seems to be expanding by leaps and bounds on any given day (or, more exactly, on every given day). He simply NEEEEEEDS to know and understand everything that is being said, and will ask an incessant stream of questions. It is for this reason that I can no longer listen to the inappropriate morning radio talk show on the way to school and why I refuse to let Ethan see an actual news broadcast. I am not prepared to answer all of those questions. As it is, questions about G-d and heaven and dinosaurs and tides and Star Wars and why leaves are green and worm holes and......omg, I need to lie down.

And while he is simply thirsting for this knowledge, he has a bit of a problem keeping it all straight in his mind. This is evident in his imaginative play. While a grown up would probably play Spider Man when s/he played Spider Man and dinosaurs when s/he played dinosaurs, Ethan tends to jumble them up....

Exhibit A: Spider Man rides the baby T-Rex...

Exhibit B: Mama T-Rex eats Spider Man...(cue Debbie Downer music...)

Exhibit C: "Spider Man head...nom nom nom...."

And he tends to get his history timeline a little mixed up....like when the "big bang" hit the dinosaurs....

please note the mangled Spider Man splayed out in to the side of the picture.
By the way, it seems my fate in life to never live in a house that has decent lighting for any type of photography. That's not at all frustrating.

I feel like Ethan knows SO much more than I did at his age--lunar eclipses, super novas, Martin Luther King Jr., Star Wars, how babies are born (born, not made. I'm not ready for how they're made.), super heros, how planes fly, what gravity is. He's asked questions and/or spouted out facts about these topics and countless more for at least half the amount of time he's been alive already. He can't seem to get enough knowledge. I don't remember being like that.

And I love that having all those little tidbits, however incomplete and over-simplified, in his mind gives him such huge leeway in what sort of imaginative play is possible.

Echo gets to join into the play as an "Echosaurus; he's a carnivore cat dinosaur, and he's the biggest dinosaur, even bigger than the T-Rex." Of course he is....