Yesterday was apparently “use up spare cotton ball day” at Corwin’s school. He made a sheep out of a toilet paper roll, four rolled up tubes of black tape and a lot of cotton balls. He also made a diorama of the four basic cloud types: cumulus, stratus, cirrus and cumulonimbus. When I got home, M0m mentioned it to me and Corwin explained what it was (sad to say, it wasn’t instantly obvious that it was a diorama of the four basic cloud types). Corwin was able to rattle off cumulus, cirrus and cumulonimbus but couldn’t remember stratus, which was that greatly concerned him. He kept muttering “I can’t remember the fourth type!” It was like a bad spy thriller when the good scientist can’t quite remember the secret ingredient that will make the fuel to power up the weapon to destroy the evil monster terrorizing the town.
Sadly, as parents we were unable to sustain the suspense and reminded Corwin about stratus clouds. He was grudgingly accepting of the information, as if we were just telling him something to make him stop worrying.