May 19, 2008

How Many Days Old are You?

When I was at my sister's house, my 7 year old nephew asked his mom how old the baby was now. She replied "He's six days old". That got us on a quest to find out how many days old the the rest of us were*:

7 year old nephew: 2,737 days old

Me: 11,160 days old

After calculating these two ages, the following dialogue took place:

Nephew: "Wow! You're old!"

Me: "Yes, I am old. But, your mom is still older".

I think there is a reason we calculate our age in years rather than days. I'd much rather be 30 than 11,160.

*days are approximate. We didn't actually get out a calendar and count the exact amount of days.

1 comment:

Cammie said...

Oh boy, that's a different way to look at age.