Fostering curiosity in kids (and their parents) since 2011

Posts tagged ‘Santa’

“Would Santa vacation in Texas?”

While we were munching on chips and salsa other day at Chili’s, The Four-Year-Old’s eye was caught by a picture of a man with a long white beard and long white hair wearing a glittering sombrero and dark sunglasses.

The Four-Year-Old: “Mommyo, is that Santa Claus on vacation?”

“Are elves real?”

The Four-Year-Old, from the backseat of the car: “Mommyo, are elves real?” Mother, distracted by all the crazy drivers on the Thanksgiving weekend roads: “No.” The…

A simple chart plotting the ROI of going to various places based on how many shots you'll need and how likely it is you will find fossils there

Caterpickles Cleans House

The Four-Year-Old has been asking questions much more quickly than I can research and answer them. At the moment, my pending questions queue has some 115 questions in it. So in an effort to tame the beast a bit, I’m going to break with my one primary question per Caterpickle routine and deal with several unrelated questions about glow-in-the-dark cats, fossils in Iceland (or the lack thereof), and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer all at once.