Brooklynn loves insects and has read a few books on them. She is always telling us odd facts about them so I was surprised yesterday when she was doing a crossword puzzle and asked "What's 'an insect that lives underground'?"
We told her, "You know everything about insects, you can figure that one out yourself."
A few seconds later she burst out, "Of course, Mole Crickets!" Before Brent and I recovered from that comment, she followed up with, "oh, but it's only 4 letters."
It actually took her a while and some explaining from us that it had to be an insect that normal children would know, before she figured out that the word they were looking for was "ants."
By the way... what would be the answer to "use a pencil" that fits in: __ R __ T __?
We could NOT figure this one out and there wasn't an answer key for this puzzel. We are certain that "what a cowboy catches cows with" is a "ROPE" which is where the R comes from, and that "ball park food" is a "hotdog" for the T. I guess it must be something like "Mole Crickets" that we parents just don't know about!
4 comments:
Brooklynn always makes me laugh! She's such a funny girl.
I say use a pencil is erase and find a different ball park food.
Well I think Brooklynn's answer was better
How about write...
I hate cross word puzzles. Good for Brooklynn.
I agree with Blake, write was the first thing I thought off.
"write" is so obvious, how did we not think of it? I guess we were thinking something you couldn't do with a pen. I was with Candice and kept trying to find a way we could make "erase" fit.
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