April 3, 2005

• Dmitry amuses me quite a lot, as his vocabulary expands.  Often I'm taken by surprise at the words he's picked up.

  This afternoon I took him to buy a new pair of shoes, as he's growing
  like a weed and the ones he has been wearing are too small.  We
  went to Mervyn's where he found a pair of Reeboks he liked, but he
  balked at the price . . . they were on sale for $39.99.  I pointed
  out how the sole is sewn on, so they should last for quite a while, and
  after trying them on, he decided they would be fine.

  When we got in the car to leave for home, he cleared his throat and remarked, "Isn't there something you want to say to me?"

  "Huh?  What?" I asked in some confusion.

  His face was the picture of pleased complacency as he replied that he
  would have these shoes for a long time.  "I am economic!" he
  announced smugly.

  He's accustomed to my muttering that he's an expensive Russian rascal,
  you see, and was anxious to highlight an area where he is economical
  (he has a bit of difficulty with suffixes).

  Solemnly I agreed he is quite economical.

  "But not in video games," he smirked.  "I'm not economic at all about video games."

  No argument here! 

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