Word Problems

So tonight at dinner Joshua was amazing his parents yet again. Earlier this week we had made some green shamrock cookies in honor of St. Patrick's Day. Tonight after supper we got the cookies out and were trying to decide if there were enough left for our guests tomorrow (a family of 5). Daddy counted 11 cookies, so I said that there wouldn't be enough after we each had one tonight. Then Joshua pipes up, "Well, if each of us only eats half of one tonight, and since Micah doesn't eat cookies yet, then we will have enough for everyone to have one after lunch tomorrow." He was right because that would mean that we would only eat 2 as a family, which would leave 9 for tomorrow, one each for the 4 of us and our 5 friends. Now, lest you think that we have a total brain child, right after that we asked him if we ate 4 cookies then how many would be left and he said 6. :o) (It should have been 7.) Nevertheless, we do think he's pretty smart. And he does come up with things sometimes that just make us look at him and wonder what is really going on in his brain...

By the way, we did each eat one yummy cookie tonight after supper. Then we made brownies for our friends tomorrow. Just in case you were wondering. ;o)