The twins are both very intense when it comes to their interests, almost-OCD-ish. With Ashton, it’s anything with numbers, counting, or math. Remember the pop tabs? The kid will count things over and over and over. Two weeks ago, he started drawing plus signs on paper and counting them.  We’re not just talking a hundred here, a hundred there. I think at last count, he was approaching 20,000. TWENTY THOUSAND. He divides the papers up and counts a few hundred at a time.

Now, Bridger… That boy likes to study. He proclaims that he is a scientist of everything. Once he decides on which subjects are currently his focus, watch out. He has obsessed over pandas, firemen, and transformers. His current obsessions are space, reptiles, and the human body. Yes, the human body. He’s six. You can imagine that this has led to some interesting conversations. Bridger doesn’t just read the occasional book about his subject, he literally spends every waking moment thinking, drawing, or reading about it.

Enter the computer. After supper last night, Ashton asked if he could play Wii Fit and Bridger asked to go on the computer. Typically, he goes to NASA sites or National Geographic and I’ve never had any reason to question it. Last night, however, he came downstairs a bit later and laid down on me. I asked him what he learned about. Silence. I asked again. Bury head. My continued questioning was met by more silence and almost-tears. That is never good.

I marched upstairs and opened up the history to see what he had been up to. Deja Vu?

My sweet little cuddly mama’s-boy googled: picture of feces. Yes, he typed in PICTURE OF FECES. And then he visited a website called, “The Scoop on Poop.” He was just devastated over my discovery of his poop search. Devastated.

What else did my 6-year-old google?

*best pictures of digestive system
*best pictures of digestive system in real color  (Because who wants to see photos of the digestive system in FAKE color?)
*best pictures of stomach (Obviously, he is quite choosy in his google searches. Only the best.)
*what does it look like in komodo dragon digestive system? (Seriously. Like you weren’t wondering the same thing?)
*picture of all body parts in one frame
*picture of all systems in one picture
*science of your body
*what is the difference between digest and indigest

Is it bad that I am actually quite impressed that he typed all these words out and his spelling was impeccable?

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