Translation.

Just now, totally out of the blue, Micah says to me: 

"Can I eat two hogs at the end of the world?"

Or, at least, that's what I *thought* he said. I was, to say the least, puzzled. I mean, I know the boy is random, but this was pretty out there. I asked him to repeat what he'd said. Turns out, he *actually* said: 

"Can an 'e' do two jobs at the end of a word?"

Yup, sitting around in the family room on a Saturday afternoon after a longish day of soccer games and errands...talking about boys' wish lists and nothing in particular...and the boy wants to know about the various jobs the silent "e" does at the end of a word. Specifically, he wanted to know if it could both make a vowel say its name (in a vowel-consonant-e syllable) and keep a "v" from being at the end of a word (which, to be honest, I didn't know was one of the jobs of the silent "e" until just recently when we were doing our spelling lessons...actually, we've gone over five different jobs so far...go figure).

Anyhow. The word in question? "Slave." As in the new "Slave I" Star Wars Lego set, of course. ;)

Ah, to be inside the mind of a five year old. ;)