Uhm, yeah, it's just like that

We went to New Hampshire this past weekend for Amy's nephew's high school graduation. More about that trip in another post, maybe. Samantha got to see her cousins, of whom she is very fond. She also got bitten on the forehead by something in her bed at our hotel during the night, poor kid, and her forehead and face swelled up something awful. Her eyes were so puffy and swollen she could barely open one of them. She's been on Benadryl and Claritin for the past three days, and we actually ended up taking her to the emergency room on the way home from NH just to make sure it was nothing more serious than an allergic reaction. She's on the mend now, fortunately.

That's not the topic of this post.

The topic of this post is words: Samantha's remarkable vocabulary and how unintentionally hilarious some of her comments are. We were driving along and had the following conversation.

Sam: How long until we get to aunt Pat's house?
Amy: About 10 or 15 minutes.
Sam: What does "about" mean?
Matt: What do you think it means?
Sam: Maybe a little bit less, maybe a little more?
Matt: That's right, that's exactly what it means.
Sam (excitedly): Oh! So it's like "approximately"!

Yeah, that's right ... the definition of "about" is "approximately". That's my daughter...

New words she's picked up this week include circumnavigate, resplendent, recite, and solitary. If you have children and don't own a copy of "Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant", shame on you.