Recent Talks with Taylor

As she's get older these little chats become more and more funny!

The other night Taylor & I went into the bathroom to start her bath. We found a cricket in the tub. No big deal. Or so I thought. Next thing I know, we're discussing the adventures of a cricket.

T: (Yelling) A BUG, A BUG! THROW IT IN THE POTTYYYY! THROW IT IN THE POTTY!
D: (In a clam voice) OK, Taylor. Calm down. It's just a bug.
T: (Adamant, but not scared) THROW IT IN THE POTTY!
D: (As I'm scooping up the bug with a plastic toy) Do they put bugs in the potty at preschool?
T: Yeah.
D: (drops the bug in the potty and flushes as T watches, then I turn on the bathtub faucet)
T: (Looking in the toilet) Where the bug go?....Where the bug go, Mommy?
D: It went bye, bye, it's gone...I flushed it down the toilet.
T: But where did it GO?
D: (Getting a little frustrated with all of her questions in the midst of the noise of the running water and how exagerated all the noise is in the bathroom) It went into the sewer.
(Obviously, my words were not clearly heard over the sound of the water because a few minutes later, she's sitting in the tub and all is quiet. Until she says:
T: My bug went to the store to buy something?
D: LOL, No. The bug went in the sewer. Not the store, the sewer.
T: The sewer. What's the sewer?
D: The sewer is where things go when you flush them down the toilet.
T: But what is the sewer? What is it?
D: (Frustrated at my inability to answer her questions) I don't know honey, it's...I don't know.
T: (Persistent!) But what is it?
D: You know what, Daddy knows what a sewer is. This is really a question for Daddy. Do you want to get out of the tub and ask Daddy?
T: Yeah.
(So, we get her out of the tub, dry her off & take her to Daddy)
T: Daddy....Daddy....what's a sewer?
J: Looks at me not understanding what she's saying.
D: She's saying it perfectly. She wants to know what a sewer is.
J: (wide-eyed, light bulb moment, looks at T) Oh, you want to know where your poopies go?
D: No. ( I begin to reitterate the whole story and that she had said "The bug went to the store")
T: Yeah, Daddy, the bug went to the store to buy me OREOs!

Can't ya just picture a little cricket with a shopping cart and a bag of OREOs? The poor girl never did get an adequate explanation of what a sewer is.