On prime numbers and maps

Now for a little bit about the geek portion of the blog.  Little Geek Girl is, we think, a pretty normal 5.75 yo girl.  She brings home sticks and rocks from kindergarten.  She likes to play with her My Little Ponies.  Sometimes you think she is so grown up and then the lack of impulse control kicks in.  But then, sometimes she is suuuuuuuccccchhhh a geek, and I lay most of the blame on Zürich Daddy Geek. 

I don't remember how it came up, but yesterday she started talking about prime numbers and asked me to list them for her.  I started listing them and then decided it might easier to find something on the wonderful internet.  Well, it turns out 1 is not a prime number.  I, as an adult, can accept rules like that.  But LGG is really bothered by the fact that 1 is not a prime number.  "But mama, what times what equals 1?"

Later in the evening we were watching the The Simpsons.  I am not a supporter of this habit, but is has long been a tradition with her and ZDG and when given a choice she'll always want to watch the Simpsons.  At some point Nepal came up.  "Mama, will you show me where Nepal is on the map."  I tell her to go look for her paperback atlas and I also decide to use Google Maps or Google Earth.  "Mama, I want you to show me on the map.  Not in the book, not on the computer, on the map!"  I think to myself, "What is she talking about?"  Then I remember those old-fashioned things that came in our National Geographic magazines and I pull out our world map.

Tuesday afternoon a specialist came to evaluate the kindergarten class students for their German comprehension.  He gave them instructions to draw things or to manipulate a doll and asked them questions.  LGG did fine.  Both he and her kindergarten teacher think that at some point soon the switch will turn on and LGG will start speaking German all of the time.  Apparently more and more frequently she lets her guard down and responds to the teacher in German.  When ZDG asked LGG if the man spoke in English or German, she replied "He spoke in German, but that was so the other kids could understand."