My son and I visited my friend Jason’s house and while he was there Jason’s wife offered to let the kids watch a children’s movie. Jason, an early cord cutter, fired up Netflix and quickly had them watching a Curious George movie.

Half-way into the movie, as I had forewarned Nicholas, we headed out. Nicholas was appalled. He was convinced that he would never see how this movie ended. I had to promise him, repeatedly, that he would get to see the movie. Nicholas was dubious.

We arrived home, and mommy told Nicholas that the movie was in The Cloud and we would watch it later. Nicholas turned to mommy and asked:

Are we going to see the movie through the window or outside on the clouds?

We both started to laugh hard. And cursed the fact that we had not recorded this for posterity.

Daddy who works on cloud infrastructures, with  Mommy’s help – oh okay Mommy is much better at explaining and she did most of the explaining … , explained what cloud was.

Here’s what Nicholas understood: