(April 23, 2013 at 9:40 am)Kayenneh Wrote: I had a wonderful discussion with my almost 5-year-old nephew, Mr. Red, a couple of weeks ago. He's a big fan of the French animated series 'Il était une fois... la vie' and due to watching it, he now knows that a sperm and an egg cell is needed to make a baby.
Red, his other aunt (my cousin) and I were sitting at the table discussing cousins and he asked us both if we wanted to have babies and that he dearly wish for girls. Then he proceeded to ask us how the baby becomes a girl or a boy. I told him that the egg cell has always the chromosome x and that the sperm can have either x or y, and xx means girl, xy means boy. Red looked at me for a while, clearly in thought.
"X for boy..?", he asked.
"No, x for girl", I answered.
He nodded and was very pleased with the explanation. A few days later when his parents arrived home from Paris, he surprised his mother, telling her "X for girls, y for boys!". She didn't know how he knew that before I told her about our discussion.
Congratulations auntie kay
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
