Zack: [ While playing with my mother’s necklace] What’s this?
Me: This is my mother’s necklace, and these are each of my kids’ birthstones.
Zack: What’s a birfstone?
Me: Each month has a stone associated with it and what ever month you’re born in, that’s your birthstone. Like you’re an Aquamarine.
Zack: [Holding his hands out, palms up, and shaking them] No I’m nowt! I canwt even swim!