#conversationswithchildren

Me: What?

Arie: Can we eat lomster for dinner?

Me: Lobster?

Arie: Yeah, that's what I said.

Me: Lobster is pretty expensive. That's some fancy stuff. But you know who would probably love to feed you lobster?

Arie: Who?

Me: Nonie and Grandpa.

Arie: Ooooh, yeah! Because they go fishing, and lomsters live in the water and you catch them like fish, so they can catch a lomster and we can eat it!

Me: Yeah...that's not really...

Arie: And they can catch fish too, and I'll catch fish too, and we can eat fish and lomster from fishing. But there are platypuses in the water too, and lots of other things, and fish, but we don't eat platypuses because they have fur on them, so if we catch a platypus we'll have to throw it back. Because it has fur.

Me: Yeah, I don't think people eat platypuses.

Arie: Because they have fur.

Me: Well, I think they're also...

Arie: And beavers have fur so we don't eat beavers, we just pet them, but they're also chunky, so we feed them and pet them, because they're chunky so they like to eat also. But we don't eat them because we don't eat fur.