Grandma: How do you even get pneumonia? How do you catch it?
Carter: Isn't it... Oh wait, that's hypothermia.
Grandma: I know it has to do with fluid in the lungs. Fluid. Hey, maybe that's how they named it! Flu... Fluid.
Valerie: Pneumonia, Grandma.
Grandma: Oh, right.
Carter: How did they start spelling that? Why is there a "p" at the front of the word?
Grandma: Yeah, I don't know how they came up with that word! Valerie, do you know?
Valerie: No, I don't know. Do you want me to look it up?
Grandma: No, don't look it up! You always have to look everything up! Don't you ever just sit and ponder something?
Valerie: Not really. If I know the answer is out there and I want to find it, I don't wait to go chase after it.
Grandma: Hmm. Ponder. I wonder where that word comes from.
Carter: I bet it has to do with the word "pond."
Grandma: That's good! You're probably right!
Carter: People'd just be sittin' by a pond, thinking about something...
Grandma: Pondering. That sounds right. I think we should all pick a word and try to find where it came from.
Carter: Like... radio.
Grandma: Well, that's because it goes out, in a radius. <moves her hands outward>
Carter: Is that why? I never knew that!
Grandma: <Laughs>
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THAT'S SO MORBY.
(I'm sorry, but that will never get old. To me, at least.)
Love you, Val Val!
Do more of these! I love it!
I don't know whether to write, "Oh Grandma..."
OR
"Oh Carter..."
"OH EVERYONE."
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