Nose Hair Stuff

We are reading "How to Train Your Dragon" with David and the other night we had a little discussion over the following paragraph: "Stoick was trying very hard not to feel disappointed in his son. He kept telling himself that Hiccup was just a slow developer, and would soon start getting muscles and nose hair, and scoring the winning goal in Bashyball games like Stoick had himself."

David stopped me right there and made sure I understood what a slow developer means: "It's the same as Loony the Late Bloomer, but he is from a different book. When you are a late bloomer your body can't hold much stuff in it." We talked it over and came to a conclusion that a slow developer may not only be a scrawny munchkin but also the one that "cannot do things other persons can do, like, play Bashyball games."

As far as Dave, he is blooming all right, I think. At least one morning a week, we discover that some pants get too short, or shirt's sleeves are suddenly 3/4 it's original length. Yesterday David exclaimed in exasperation: "Every night my clothes get twice as small!"