Huck’s current obsession is Roman Numerals.  Something about those Is and Xs and Cs and Ls and Ms have him waking up extremely early (4AM the other day) because what’s the point in sleeping when you could be studying an ancient number system?  His favorite game of late is to teach me these numbers, and by me I mean Kindergartener.  I have to play like I don’t quite understand, I have to make a few mistakes along the way, and then eventually I figure it out and he is very pleased with me. And by he I mean Teacher.  At school Huck’s doing all his math work by answering in Roman Numerals, something his teacher thankfully supports.  During work time he writes 1-100 in Roman Numerals, and would go to 1000 if he had the time.  He has requested to add a “choice” at work time called “Roman Numerals with Huck,” but his teacher isn’t sure about that quite yet.  (The thought of the other children dreading that choice cracks me up a little bit.) At the playground the other spring-like day, which I had to drag Huck to by promising he could just sit on a bench and write Roman Numerals, he quizzed our friend Nancy with some very tricky questions, and she seemed genuinely happy to have learned something new. Troy, being the fantastic dad he is, has created a superhero team with Huck called The Romes, each one with a different Numeral as their insignia.  And me, well, I play Kindergartener.

Kids.  They make you care about things you never did before.  (I worked very hard to figure out the date up there in the subject heading, as well as the math problem doodle 68 + 88 = 156.  Teacher would be so proud.)