What happens when you try to really explain to a precocious, dinosaur-obsessed three-year old about Moses and the Ten Commandments:
Emilia: Moses was this man and God gave him the Demandments on some rocks?
Me: Stone tablets, which are like rocks, only they look like paper, sort of.
Emilia: Paper rocks?
Me: Well...
Emilia: Did God send them in the mail?
Me: No, he sent them down from the sky.
Emilia: Where he lives.
Me: Basically.
Emilia: Did he throw them?
Me: Well, not really...
Emilia: How did he get them down?
Me: He, um, reached...
Emilia: Does he have really long arms?
Me: No...
Emilia: Did he drop them?
Me: Well...
Emilia: Was it like when the rock came out of the sky and killed the dinosaurs?
Me: Well, no...
Emilia: Maybe God killed the dinosaurs!
Me: Well...
Emilia: WITH HIS ROCKS.
Me: Well...
Emilia: Does Barney know about this?
Ten bucks says Barney doesn't.
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Oh my gosh--i'm laughing out LOUD! It's those precious, confusing conversations that really make motherhood so much FUN.
I love conversations with 3-year-olds.
I told mine that they went extinct because they didn't listen to their mommy. I *tried* using the scientific explanations but those didn't work. They haven't asked since. (They also still don't listen to me.)
again, awesomeness.
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