“What I like the most about playing dino doctor is teaching her the dino names like you taught me ” – Aidan, 5

I wondered, very briefly, when we had our second kid, isn’t it going to be a lot harder trying to manage two kids learning at different ‘grade levels’? That was quickly replaced with, ‘well, I guess she’ll have two teachers, and he’ll be a teacher of things he learns.’

They played dinosaurs for a couple of hours together. Well, an hour of dinosaurs, and an hour of prehistoric flying reptiles. What you are looking at here, is the goings-on of a pteranodon nest. Those are egg balls, and that’s not skipping ropes around his neck. It’s fish. (Dunkleostus, to be exact)

pteranodon nest

The biggest downside to school for five year olds is they are surrounded by five year olds all day.