I can see why.
My 4-year-old daughter saw me shaving my legs and asked what I was doing. I explained that when girls get older, their legs get hairier, and they like to shave them. “If I didn’t, they’d be all hairy, just like Daddy’s,” I explained, hoping for a laugh, because Daddy is very, very hairy. She studied me for a moment, and asked, “Do you shave your chest, too?”
Recently, my girlfriend had to ride in the backseat with her three year old nephew and one year old niece. There was very little room in between the car seats and she was having trouble squeezing in. Girlfriend’s sister said “Looks like you need to lose some weight!”
Then, the tiny voice of her three year old nephew chimed in with “You can say that again!” She was both crushed and unable to stop laughing.
Resurrected to deliver one more:
Fang (6) and Spike (2) were at the table eating breakfast this morning. I stepped into the kitchen to get some more coffee when I heard Spike call out,“Da! Da! Something happened to my thumb.”
“What happened to you thumb,” I asked, returning to the table.
He held up his hand with his thumb folded on his palm. “An animal ate it.”
“An animal ate your thumb?”
“Yes.”
“What kind of animal?”
He ponders for a moment. “A cow!”
“A cow ate your thumb?”
“Yes.”
“You’re telling me that while I was in the kitchen, a cow came in the back door, ate your thumb, and then left?”
“Yes!”
“Okay, then.”
Halloween stories:
When my son was two, I couldn’t get him to say “Trick or Treat”. All he would say was “Put it in the bucket.”
The next year when he was three, he went out dressed as Buzz Lightyear. He would say “Trick-or-Treat” and after he got the candy he would remove his mask and reassure the homeowner: “It’s really Sam.” He was apparently concerned about deceiving people into thinking that Buzz Lightyear had actually visited them. He’s still an exceptionally honest child.
Heh. Well, to balance Buzz / Sam, my nephew has taken, over the past couple of years, to introducing himself to people (even just random people on the street) as ‘Luke Skywalker’. 