Conversation of the Day

We were reading Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends last night (note to self - this book should not be read until your child is a bit older, but Brielle picks it almost nightly).  We were reading the poem about the boa constrictor that ate the kid...I know.  Poor judgement. 

At any rate, Brielle made a face and said 'that can't happen.  We have bones and stuff.  Boa constrictors can eat birds because they have hollow bones.  You know.  That's why they can fly.  Well except the ostrich.  Their bones aren't hollow.' 

Grant:  Is that why they can't fly?

Brielle:  Yes.

Me:  I think they lay really big eggs too.

Brielle:  Yes.  They have the biggest eggs in the world (imagine her eyes bugging out to emphasize just how big the eggs are).

I assumed Brielle was a bit confused about the whole hollow bones thing and it was late at night (we just got back from celebrating Grant's birthday) so I decided to nod my head and go along with it.

I was going to wrote a post about her cute, but overly confused knowledge of birds. 
Well...who needs to go back to preschool?  This girl. 
Yep.  She was right.  Birds do have hollow bones which allow them to fly.  Grant looked it up, since we have learned Brielle is hardly ever wrong.  She never gets facts mixed up.

So in the end, I learned that reading a 3 1/2 year old a poem about a boa constrictor eating a kid probably wasn't the best idea.

Or maybe I learned that my 3 1/2 year old knows way more about birds than I ever will!

You can only imagine my answer when she asked me what light was made of the other night........