Eventually Yours

✽ 22

~Brie~

“What's the largest mammal on earth?”

“Elephant”

“Article?”

“The Elephant” he giggled.

“If you add fifteen cookies to a box that already contains ten cookies, how many cookies will you have altogether?”

“Twenty-five” he replied immediately.

“How many cents are in forty-seven dollars?”

“Four thousand, seven hundred.”

“How many stripes are on the American flag?”

“Thirteen.”

I opened my mouth to correct him but I shut it almost immediately. He was right.

“Okay,” I exhaled. “What nationality was Christopher Columbus?”

“Italian” he sighed. “Mommy, what are you do—”

“In what year was Pluto reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet?”

“Two thousand and six. Mommy—”

“How many inches are in one foot?”

“Twelve. I don't like this anymore Mommy” he frowned.

“What year did the first Thanksgiving holiday take place?”

He leaned back against his chair.

“It's in my embarrassing terrible twos Thanksgiving video” he sighed. “Sixteen twenty-one.”

I smiled.

“You wanna stop?” I asked.

He pouted.

“Hot tub” I reminded.

“Okay fine” he groaned dramatically.

“How do you calculate an average?”

“I find the sum of the numbers divided by the total number of values in the given set.”

“Good. What land animal can open its mouth the widest?”

“Amy” he giggled.

Iris slapped a hand over her mouth to hold back her laugh and I made a face.

“Hey, that's not nice, Manny” I scolded.

“A hippopotamus” he grinned.

“He's not entirely wrong” Aiden muttered from my side.

I chuckled and turned my attention back to my son.

“A soda costs d cents, and a candy bar costs c cents. Using algebra, how would you form this for two sodas and two candy bars?”