I Need A Drink of Water

I wish it was that easy.  We started going to bed on the school bedtime schedule this week so it isn't so hard to adjust when school starts next week.  I thought I had Hannah down for the night when we had the following conversation.

Hannah:  Mom, I've been thinking about something for a long time.

Me:  What's that?  (Newbie mistake.  Never ask what or why!!)

Hannah:  You have a fox, a chicken and a bag of seed on one side of a river.  You have to get all three across, but you can only take one at a time.  You can't leave the fox with the chicken or the chicken with the seed.  Do you know how to get them across.

Me:  (At first I thought she knew the answer, but quickly realized she had really been pondering this.)  Hmmm?  (I sat in deep concentration for a minute.)  Are you sure you can only take one at a time?

Hannah: Yes.  You can only take one at a time.

Me:  I don't know.  (Oh...the magic of google)  Wait....(I find the answer and then deliver it as though I came up with it in a stroke of genius.)  You take the chicken across.  Go back for the seed and take it across.  Take the chicken back with you and leave it on the other side.  Take the fox and leave it on the side with the seed.  Go back and get the chicken.

Hannah:  Oh.  (Thinks about it for a minute.)

Me:  (Take the remote, my cell phone and a pencil to use as visuals and show her.)

Hannah:  O.K.!  Now I can get another prize.

Me:  A prize for what.

Hannah:  In Poptropica.

Poptropica is an online game for kids.  Apparently at different levels you are asked riddles to advance and receive awards.  Poptropica is more of a PK thing with the kids.  When he left me important information and papers, that would have been a good thing to pass along.