Friday, September 11, 2009
Monsieur Jude reached the 'why?' stage earlier this year and hasn't looked back. Unfornately, he also has a pretty good grasp of the while(TRUE){} programming structure, so once he starts asking why [some X], you can rest assured that he'll ask why [your explanation for X] until you distract him with something shiny (ideally, a new 1:55 scale die cast member of the Pixar Cars cast, or even one of those made up cars that I'm sure never appeared in the movie and yet appear on store shelves).
This evening, his stomach squeaked at bedtime.
"What sound was that?"
"That was your belly"
"Why?"
"Because your belly squeaks sometimes."
"Why?"
"... Because it has doors in it."
"Why?"
"Because sometimes doors squeak. Your belly has doors in it to keep all the food from going in there at the same time."
"Why?"
"Because it would get too crowded in there if all the food went in at the same time."
"Oh."
He has a memory like a trap, so he's going to remember that his belly has doors in it right up until he takes high school biology. Then he can learn the word sphincter and have a grand old time, just like we did.
1 comments:
I don't think this post will be met with sneers. This is funny.
My mother, for some reason, remembered for her entire life the definition of "digestion" that she learned in middle school. She clung to it even after Alzheimer's sunk in. I asked her so many times as a tot what it was, then giggled, that I still remember it too.
digestion: the sum of processes by which a plant or animal absorbs food substances
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