Car trips with my son always evoke interesting conversations, especially when my 5 year old shares his always interesting, usually unconventional opinions. He's been ill for the past few days, but today woke up chattering, as he normally does, which was all the proof I needed to verify that he felt much better.

We had a few errands to run today - bank, grocery store, parents' house - and I thought the fresh air would feel good. Even though the grey dawn arrived with  grainy tinkerbell-sized hail to slicken sidewalks and streets, by noon the slush piles outnumbered slidy spots.

My miniature orator had much to say today. This snippet is but one of his musings. *Recorded and transcribed by a Very Amused Mama.

Benjamin: "I think I'd like to be a scientist when I grow up. You know, a scientist who invents things. Like invisibility. I want to invent a way for everyone to turn invisible whenever they want. I think it would be really a cool thing if you could be invisible - or turn anything else invisible. And I could invent more light sabers, too. Because everyone needs a light saber, especially if they could turn invisible. Imagine a whole bunch of invisible people fighting with light sabers. But if I was a scientist, I wonder if I could still be a ninja? Sure. I could be a scientist ninja who invents things and gets to go around all invisible with a light saber and do spinjitsu. And then I could be like a crime-fighting ninja scientist who could turn good guys invisible so they could sneak up on bad guys and destroy them with their light sabers."

World problem #428 solved!