Three year olds come up with some very interesting conversational topics and some even more far fetched conclusions. Just this morning my daughter Shayla told me out of nowhere that her grandma was a boy when she was little. I said, "no, it doesn't generally work like that". "Why?", she says. "Because little girls don't become big men, and big girls don't start out as little boys", I replied while laughing at where this was going. "Why not?"
"Well, because that's not how things are designed. Little boys grow into men, and little girls grow into women."
"Ahhh, Ok." --end of conversation. Hilarious!? I guess. This is the same child that asked me the other day why we make dogs go poo-poo in the yard. Um... because that's the only place on this earth that we're going to allow those animals to take a dump!? Really?? This is funny stuff I have to admit. On and on it goes.
"Well, because that's not how things are designed. Little boys grow into men, and little girls grow into women."
"Ahhh, Ok." --end of conversation. Hilarious!? I guess. This is the same child that asked me the other day why we make dogs go poo-poo in the yard. Um... because that's the only place on this earth that we're going to allow those animals to take a dump!? Really?? This is funny stuff I have to admit. On and on it goes.
My baby girl Shayla (3yrs.) doesn't understand why we can't just hop in the truck and boogie on over to cousin Garret's house in Houston for a little visit. We live in Austin.. Poor baby. We're going to go soon, but I try explaining that we have to plan that sort of thing for a weekend and that her mom would like to be a part of that trip as well. "But why, but why, but why?!" she pleads, not so much as a question, but of course more to the complicated nature of things. It's cute in a sort of sad way as these are aspects of life that slowly sink into all our heads when we were young. I console her by telling her, "It'll be Real Soon that we pay Garret and Family in Houston a visit. It doesn't take away the pang though. So retorts once I try to explain a little of the physics of physicality, "But I Want to go Now"! Yes, of course you do. Awww......Sorry baby.