College

Daniel and I have some interesting conversations while waiting for him to do his business in the bathroom. Today he made some of his first comments on his preferred college .

"Daniel, you're growing up so fast. Soon you'll be driving and going to college!"

"Ya!"

"Do you want to go to college someday?"

"Yes, I do."

"Daniel, what college do you want to go to?"

(Chris crosses his fingers and prays to the patron saint of the University of Washington, Don James (not an officially recognized saint.....yet).

"Ummm...the University of Alpa!!"

What? I had never heard of the University of 'Alpa'. At that point I was just hoping 'Alpa' was some way of saying 'Swiss Alps', in which case we'd have to do a campus visit soon.

"Daniel, I've never heard of that school. Can you tell me more about it."

Daniel got a concerned look on his face and then said,

"Um, Daddy, I'm not interested in talking about this right now."

He then proceeded to deal with the business at hand.