January 18, 2004 - Sunday
At dinner this evening, Harry started talking about our visit to the aquarium more than a year ago with grandpa John. I'm not sure where the thought came from, although I suspect from his Pre-K class talking about skeletons and dinosaurs, because it started in the most peculiar way. Harry didn't mention the fish or the penguins first, but rather the "dinosaur skeleton at the museum." His mother and I didn't, at first, understand what and what museum he was talking about. We tried to correct him suggesting he must be talking about a different museum with a dinosaur stature out front, but he persisted. Then, he started describing where the skeleton was, hanging from the ceiling and, sure enough, while it's really not what I think of as a highlight of the aquarium, there is a large whale skeleton effectively hanging from the roof of the aquarium and that was clearly what Harry was talking about. That's more than a quarter of his life ago and he remembers it in surprising clarity, and in some ways better than we do.


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