Marine Biology

It's only a matter of time before Cecilia surpasses me in intellect, and today was a good reminder of how quickly she's closing in. We took the girls to an aquarium because we had some coupons and it was a good excuse to get them out of the house (and away from the Wii), and this particular aquarium has several species of shark. It's a neat set-up where the sharks and other fish swim over you as you walk through a glass tunnel of sorts, and it provides some fun views of the animals.

As many of you know, Cecilia is an animal-lover and will watch nature programming (slack-jawed and totally mesmerized) no matter what animals happen to be featured. And she gets really into it. So as we walked along the aquarium today, family after family would pass us by because - whereas other kids are all, "Neat, seahorses," and move on - Cecilia must scrutinize the animals from every angle and ask all kinds of questions. She very much gets this from her father. (Ruby, on the other hand, wanted me to point out fish privates as they swam overhead. She very much gets this from her mother.)

So I should've known better than to question her authority on a certain species, but when she told me that one was a brown reef shark I had the nerve to say, "How do you know that?" So she walked over to the aquarium employee to get confirmation and the lady told her yes, that it was in fact a brown reef shark. Cecilia went on to identify several other kinds of sharks and fish for me while I tried to figure out how long before she's officially smarter than me. Weeks? Days? Mere seconds?!