Family Bytes

My wife and I were having a chatter one day when out of nowhere our Ryle blurted what seemed like “Latin” words to us.

We listened to him for a moment as we persuade him to repeat what he just said. And our faces contorted, stumped as we cannot make out a coherent understanding to what he is saying.

So we asked him what’s he talking about. And he said they are the moons of Saturn. “Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Rhea, Iapetus and Titan”, he repeated.

I let him repeat for the nth time while I opened mister dependable google and voila! I was laughing my heart out as I listen to him while browsing through the listings of Saturn’s moons!

I was teaching our three-year-old toddler, Ryle animal body parts using plastic, miniature models of elephants, horses, hippos complete with rocks and trees.

I was asking him, "This tree cannot walk. Why?"

He stopped for awhile as if gropping for an answer.

So I continued, "Because it doesn't have...."

And he excitedly blurted, "Slippers!"


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Ryle, our three-year-old toddler is very fond of planets and the solar system. He is most familiar with the pictures of Jupiter, Saturn and Earth.

While watching a video about the solar system, our boy chanced upon a picture of a partially beaming earth in outer space.

In his enthusiastic voice, he blurted, "Earth, peak-a-boo!"