The very best text message I have ever received

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I love my kids.
About a week ago, I received the **very** best text message ever. It was from Andy, my then 13 year old son (who is already taller than me and accidentally hurt my wrist the other day at arm wrestling):***
“Hey papa; can you get me for a science experiment in science class 25 planaria, purified water, petri dishes, and can you pick up some eggs on the way home?”
I love that kid.
(:-)
***Note: This post is from 2014. Here’s an updated pic (2019; Andy is the tallest):
 
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I am a husband, a father of three, and a baldie, who also happens to be a pretty good (I hope) University Professor and Researcher. My undergraduate degree is in General Science, and my MS is in Biochemistry, both from the University of Puerto Rico. My PhD is in Pharmacology, with an emphasis in Neurobiology, from Cornell University. I love science! (do I really need to say it?) In this blog, I mainly talk about science, especially to non-scientists, but from time to time I explore topics like how is it like to raise a boy with autism, science fiction, education, etc. I am usually able to give these and other topics a scientific twist. I also blog about my favorite (non-human) types of organisms, the flatworms, especially planarians. I use planarians as animal models in pharmacology. If you’d like to see my papers so far, click here. Even though I am well published in scientific journals, I got the popular science writing bug relatively recently. I am a scientist who writes, and I have published three book so far. I hope you enjoy my posts. The opinions expressed in this blog are mine alone. They do not represent the views of my employer, my wife, my children, my parents & siblings, or Chuck Darwin…

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  1. LOL! Best text ever. I love it.
    There should be a law against them getting taller than us, really.
    Mine’s 14, and has 2 inches on me. He sprained his ankle last summer, and needed an xray. Doc says “Hey look at that, his growth plates haven’t even closed yet. He’s still got a lot of growing to do.” O_o

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