An Algebraic Equation

Whenever I drop or pick Thomas up from my sister Amy's house, I am usually swarmed by the boys telling me about their night or day. Usually it involves what went on at school, something funny that Thomas did, or something they watched on TV. I do love it. I love their enthusiasm but some times it can be overwhelming.

On Wednesdays when I pick up Thomas I usually end up giving Charlie a lift home because he spends the afternoons there while Abby has lessons. So on Wednesday afternoons when I pick Thomas up I am not only swarmed my Matt and John, I'm swarmed my Charlie too.

This past Wednesday I was greeted in "Swarming" fashion by all 3. All 3 were were speaking over eachother, filling in each other's blanks, etc. etc. about some alien program they had just watched. I couldn't tell you for the life of me what they were saying other than I know it was about aliens.

5 minutes later I'm in the car with Charlie and Thomas and Charlie starts asking me if I thought those aliens were "real". "Which aliens?" I asked. (completely forgetting about the "swarming" that had just taken place.) He told me "the ones we were just telling you about!" "Oh yeah............No, I don't believe in aliens Charlie." I told him. And this was his response:

"Well we were watching the aliens on the History Channel. History is real ya know Mary. And since history is real then the aliens must be real because they were on the History Channel."

I had no come back. All I could think of was...............a+c=b+c therefore a=b or something like that. I was stunned that my 5 year old nephew just used a verbal math equation to figure it out!

That Charlie............he's a thinker!