Tsunamis

Eric is into reading books about natural disasters. It's almost alarming how he rattles off the death tolls and gazes at the photos of destruction and exclaims, "WHOA! Look at that ! Oh my gosh, SIXTY THOUSAND people dead!" Where's the compassion? Are all 8 year old boys like this?

So today he's reading a book called World's Wost Tsunamis. The world's worst is a rather recent one from December 2004 in Thailand. I explained that he was not quite 4 years old and how I remember that awful natural disaster. Eric went on to read about the Lisbon, Portugal tsunami, and he asked me a question about it: "So Mom, were you around in 1755 for this tsunami too?"