delara, interrupted

As I was driving my "nephew" Chase home from school today, as a favor to my fabulous friend Ladan, the conversation I had with him went something like this:

Chase: "Wanna hear my very big number?"
me: "Sure! What's your very big number?"
Chase: "Three hundred and trillion, twenty five and billion, four trillion, five and gadzillion!"
me, in between giggling: "That's the BIGGEST number I've ever heard! Wow! My head hurts that number is so big!"
Chase: "I think that's the biggest number ever! It's barely big!!"

And later:

Chase: "You should come over more often - we could have adventures!"
me: "You mean like the adventure you had yesterday in the yard with Pinga?"
Chase: "Yeah, we could build marble worlds and all kinds of Lego cities."
me: "That would be so fun, Chase. You know, I'm actually an adventure specialist."
Chase: "Yeah, me too. I specially like adventures."

Precious.