Jake, the Random Conversation Generator
Jake: Did you know we had a teeeeeeeeeny, tiny desert in our backyard, but don't now?
Me: I have no idea what you are talking about.
Jake: Our sandbox, you silly! It was like a desert, but smaller. It had sand, like the desert and like the beach. What makes sand?
Me: Erosion. (I then talked about erosion for about 2 minutes.)
Jake: Oh yeah, so the water and wind hit the rocks and wear them down and make sand. When was the first sand made?
Me:I have no idea.
Jake: Oooooh, I have an idea. When was the first person? It was after the dinosaurs, right, because people came after the dinosaurs, but how do we know when people today weren't around then? How did people become people?
Me: Evolution (I then talked about evolution for about 2 minutes.)
Jake: So people used to have tails?
Me: People generally don't have tails now, but our DNA may still have evidence that people or our ancestors did. Did you know you have a tail bone?
Jake: *mind explodes* Oh my gosh! Can I grow a tail?
Me: Unlikely, although you could grow up to become a scientist that studies DNA.
Jake: So I get DNA from your egg and dad's sperm?
Me: Yes. I think you got my nose and dad's height. The curly part of your hair is from me and the straight part is from dad. Those crazy double-jointed fingers of yours are all from your dad *shudders.*
Jake: So I got my brown eyes from both of you? And my long legs from dad
Me: Yup.
Jake: Oooh, I get it! On my fingers, on the back of my fingers, I have these lines from you...
Me: Wrinkles? You're saying you get your wrinkles from me? Not cool, man.
Jake: No, I mean the ovals, the what's the word?
Andy: Knuckles?
Jake: Yes! Wait, no, the oval lines on the top of my knuckles. I got those from mom.
Andy: (Chuckles that Jake is contributing some finger wrinkles to me)
Me: (Half-amusedly glares at Andy)
Jake: Ooh, and you know how mom and I think a lot and dad doesn't, or puts stuff aside?
Me and Andy: Hey, what? Daddy totally thinks!
Me: (Chuckles that Jake is calling Andy out for not being with it)
Jake: No, I mean how mom's and my imagination won't stop around scary things, but dad can control his brain with scary stuff?
Me: Yup, daddy is good about being in control about what's real & what's fake while you & I have imaginations that won't stop.
Jake: Oh, and guess what?
Me & Andy: What?
Jake: If a sperm is a Y and the egg is an X, a baby will be a boy, but if the sperm is an X and the egg is an X, it will be a girl. I bet you didn't know I knew that?
Me: Very true.
Jake: Goodnight, I love you.
Andy & Me: We love you, too.
Jake: Oh, and tomorrow can you teach me the letter number cryptogram algebra? I think I want to learn that.
Every 15 minutes with Jake can be a wild ride of conversation, and he can ramble from a sandbox in the backyard to evolution to knuckle wrinkles to algebra in the blink of an eye. He is a bit crazy, but he's the best!
