Since Ro is now 7 it’s about time to rename this column to something more appropriate than “BabyLogic”. He’s surprised me with his joy for math and logic and I enjoy his explorations of his curious mind.

We do chain math a lot, something like:

1+7 +3+4-3+6+8+9+2=?

We take turns in constructing the riddle and he takes great joy to torture me.

One good day he wanted to make it particularly hard for me so he did:

1+17+17-17-17+13-13+71-71=?

And since he knew that he would subtract the same number in the next move he didn’t have to actually do the difficult math himself. He was very proud when he came up with this system!

I was stunned.