Sunday, August 23, 2009

Brilliance, Coming Early

I'm sure I've mentioned that Rudi's most annoying trait is believing he has no food if he can see the tiniest part of the bottom of his bowl.

His and Ashley's bowls—each is a double bowl—are in the kitchen, next to their water fountain, positioned perpendicular to the wall. I placed them this way to conserve space. Okay, there's nothing else on that wall, so I'm not sure exactly why I was trying to conserve space.

This morning when Boston and Ridley and I were getting our breakfast together, Boston looked at the setup, reached down and rotated each double bowl to be parallel to the wall. He said, "I think they can't reach the back bowl, so even if it's full, they think they don't have any food."

I stared at him, stared at the bowls, stared at the cats, and walked away, shaking my head. That boy is newly eight years old, and his logical thinking skills are more finely honed than mine. I couldn't believe that, in a few minutes of problem solving, he figured out a solution that has eluded me for eight months now.

The child is brilliant!

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