Text Messages That Suggest That Our Daughter is Linguistically Superior To Us

The last message that I received on my phone yesterday as I crossed a river into the land of obscene consumerism was typical of a random one on one interaction with Zoey. The text message from June read:

Me: What are you doing Zed?

Zo: I'm admiring your camera.

Me: Huh?

Zo: I'm just admiring your camera.

She's so typically saying things like this that you forget to write them down. Admiring. Who uses the word admiring? Apparently Zo does.