On the way to the boys' Spanish class this morning, we were talking about "what we're going to be when we grow up". Aiden was saying he wants to make video games so I was chatting to them about what I would guess is the process for making a new game. I would think, I told them, that you would start by meeting with a bunch of people and talking about your idea...like, "let's make Mario Coaster, for example, where Mario can win little cars and shoot through rollercoaster levels". Aiden was inspired and started a long, detailed oration of how he would invent some sort of Mario Foodworld game. So he's going on and on about all the levels he would make and I jumped in to suggest ice things that fall on you in the "frozen world" he was designing. He put his hands over his ears and said, "stop mommy! You're taking all the smarts out of my head by talking!!"

My bad! I laughed so hard I almost started crying!