And a recent conversation

From a couple of weeks ago...

Yesterday I showed Sam a "Leap Frog" video on math. Mostly I hoped it would help him review his numbers through ten, but the video also went through basic math (addition, subtraction, etc.). A while later he was playing with some plastic golf balls he has and Emily started quizzing him:

Emily: Sam, how many balls do you have?
Sam: One... Two... Three...
Emily: You have four [sounds a little frustrated]
Sam: [exultant] Four!
Jonathan: Sam, if you take two balls and add two more, how many do you have? [showing him]
Sam: Three!
Jonathan: No, look, see it's four.
Jonathan: And now if I take two balls away...
Sam: That would not be good!
Jonathan: No, wait, I mean if you have four and for some reason you give two to someone else...
Sam: That is not good!
Jonathan: [finishing sentence] that's "subtraction"
Sam: [gleefully] ubtraction!
Jonathan: "Subtraction," remember, like the video...

Anyway, it went on like this for a while. It was a pretty entertaining conversation. That's the news from here.