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4 year old logic

I asked Amanda if she was getting sick. "Nope! 4 year olds don't get sick!" When I told her that Eleanor, Mama and Daddy had all gotten sick when they were 4, she seemed taken back, but still sure she wasn't sick.

We went to the pool for swimming lessons. Eleanor has hers first. We usually watch Eleanor for a while, and then Amanda changes into her suit in the changing room. This time I wanted to leave our big bag by the side of the pool (it was heavy!) so I told Amanda, "Now it's time to change into your swimming suit. Let me find it in the bag..." In the time it took to find the suit, Amanda had taken off her dress and was working on her underwear. A friend nearby held up a towel so we were able to complete the process in relative privacy. Modesty is definitely something that is taught, not something innate.

A few days ago I told Eleanor the famous duck food joke. I first heard this joke on the Prairie Home Companion joke show, told by Roy Blount Jr. I can still hear his voice telling the joke. We tell it as a duck coming into a grocery store, and I like to embellish a little bit. Eleanor liked the joke very much and we told it a variety of ways, including having Eleanor play the duck and me the grocery store manager, and having Amanda play the duck and Eleanor the manager. Yesterday Amanda told Daddy, "I have a joke. A duck walks into the drugstore. He asks, "do you have any nails?" The man answers, "this isn't a hardware store, this is a drug store! Of course we don't have any nails! Hahahahahah!" I'm not exactly sure what part of this Amanda thinks is funny, but I don't think I'll try to explain it any further at the moment.l
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