Talking

One of the unexpected side-effects of watching the kids all day, every day is the strain on my voice. I talk far more than I ever did while I was working full-time. Miles is a constant question machine and, not wanting to ignore him, I spend a lot of time explaining why something is. It's a good refresher of mathematics when he asks me what "half of something" is...and of chemistry when he asks why steam comes from ice (can YOU explain that?). Margo is more of a noise machine than a question machine, and while her utterences don't require as many responses, I include her in our conversations. Add to those conversations many storybooks, commands and my own questions of them and I feel like I am talking non-stop.