The kids were engrossed in the puppet show, though my children didn't understand a single bit of German. Still, Bryan managed to learn that a triceratop is called a Dreihorn in German at the end of the day.
When we came to the section on the formation of earth and the continental drift theory, Mommy and Daddy were trying to make sense out of the diagrams while the kids were happily running around the museum grounds.
Daddy: Oh, that's in English. Maybe we can read it to the kids. Hey Bryan...
Bryan: Yes Daddy?
Mommy: We read about the Pangea in the Dinosaur book back home right? You wanna know more about the supercontinent?
Bryan to Daddy: O yes, but before you read that to me, I gotta tell you something first. (pointing to the chart below) You see those creatures at the bottom of the sea. They are called trilobites. There were many of those on the sea beds! Look...
Daddy: How do you know about them?
Bryan: Oh... from the LeapPad we have at home (a gift from his aunt in Sg, arrived on Aug 10th when Daddy came back from Sg, less than a month old!)
At this moment, Alan and I were searching on the board for our answers... and sure enough, we found Trilobiten among the German section. I was quite amazed that Bryan could recognise the drawings of trilobites, even though I'm pretty sure Leap Pad has them in pictures. Anyway, this isn't about how much our son knows, rather how ignorant his parents are...
Looks like we should be hanging out in the museum more often. The kids are alright. They absorb a lot just by running around in the museum!
O yes... The Leap Pad is one good investment!
Since then, we've been talking about the triassic, jurassic and cretaceous periods!
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Bryan's exact quote was: "The ocean used to be full of trilobites." So he actually understood that these were creatures of the past (> 250 mil yrs ago, to be exact)!
And of course, I double checked in his Leap Pad when we got back and sure enough, there was a small picture of a trilobite and with the same recoded statement...
- speechless ignorant daddy.
Whoa Bryan! Way to go! Must give a Aunty a course on this 'cos, for some reason, I keep thinking it's 2 million years ago. Good stuff!!!
Have no idea how many million years ago it was too until we started reading about the pre-historic creatures together.
For some time, I've been wanting to dig out old biology textbooks and read up on animal classifications...
Me no like dinosaurs and astronomy... but these seem to be his pet topics. He sure knows how to taunt Mommy and Daddy... why doesn't he learn more about... ermmm German literature?
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