Saturday, February 23, 2008

My Son is a Nerd


Quentin has inhertited Matthew's interest in science fiction. For a kid who really just started talking a couple of months ago, he knows an inordinate number of sci-fi/fantasy words (his pronunciation isn't always clear, but it's consistent):
Gorgo (the British equivalent of Godzilla)
Gigan (a monster from Godzilla)
Dinosaur (refers to dinosaurs and also Godzilla)
Space Dinosaur (Space Godzilla)
Robot Dinosaur (Mecha Godzilla)
King Kong
Destroy [All] Monsters (a Godzilla movie)
treasure
pirate
spaceship
Planet (as in Forbidden Planet, a classic sci fi movie)
Planet Apes (as in Planet of the Apes, another classic sci fi movie)
Ankylosaurus
Triceratops
Raptor
Nychus (as in Deinonychus, a dinosaur)
castle
knights
Cyclops
Rodan (another Godzilla monster)
I'm sure there are more, but that's all I can think of now.
[OK, so dinosaurs aren't exactly science fiction, but he kind of lumps them with the Godzilla monsters]