I am setting the table for breakfast. I announce loudly "Breakfast is ready".
Vian sits down at the table and notices that I had left two forks next to his plate of cantaloupe slices.
Vian: Who put two forks?
Me: Oh, I didn't realize I left two forks. My mistake.
Vian: No, it's ok.
Then proceeds to use both his forks to pick up two slices of cantaloupes and starts shoving them in his mouth. I was reminded of the poignant quote "There are no mistakes, only opportunities".
We are at the breakfast table. Vian is having cereal and I am having hard boiled eggs for breakfast. I offered one of my eggs to Vian.
Vian: I don't like the yolk.
Me: I can take it out for you.
Vian: Yeah, if you can take out the yolk, I will eat just the skin.
Vian's last day of graduation was yesterday. It was a heartwarming ceremony where the teacher recognized each kid with a certificate for a certain quality and had the kids announce what they want to be when they grew up.
Vian was recognized as a problem solver. He then stood up and announced, I want to be a dad when I grow up.
Needless to say I was floored by this announcement. I was walking around with a big grin. It was the happiest day of my life (so far).
Yoshi is having a serious conversation with the kids.
Vian is jumping around being playful and generally not paying any attention to Yoshi.
Yoshi: Vian did you hear what I just said.
Vian: Yeah!
Yoshi: Can you tell me what you heard?
Vian: I don't know.
Yoshi: But you said you were paying attention.
Vian: I'm just really good at forgetting.
We're at a restaurant waiting for our food. My 9yo is discussing large numbers.
Sempi: Did you know that googol is 1 followed by 100 zeroes?
Me: Yeah.
Sempi: And googolplex means 1 raised to the power of googol.
Me: Technically it is 10 to the power of googol because 1 to the power of anything is just 1.
Sempi: Ok. (whatever).
Me: Also Google is named after googol.
Sempi: I know.
Me: Google's first office was called Googleplex, named after googolplex.
Sempi: Oooh. Cool!
Vian (6yo): Is that the biggest number in the universe.
Yoshi: I read that there aren't googolplex number of atoms in the universe.
Me: Well technically there is a number that is so unimaginably large. It is called Graham's Number.
Sempi and Vian: Oh. How many zeros does it have? 1000?
Me: No it is so big that you can't even imagine it. (I try reading the wikipedia entry without success)
Me: I can't quite explain it very well because I don't fully understand it myself.
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Next day I'm walking Vian to school. We're doing imaginative "talk play". Vian is describing a generator in Minecraft that can produce something infinitely.
Vian: It just keeps generating it forever. Actually that's not true, it only goes up to that number that you couldn't explain.
Me: Graham's number?
Vian: Yeah, that.
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I'm so proud that Graham's number is a casual quantity in our household now.