This morning, Eddie had a big box which he was using as a bear cave. While crawling around growling like a bear, he carried a toy rabbit in his mouth into the cave, then said "I ate the rabbit!"
"Yeah," I said. "Bears eat rabbits."
"What do rabbits eat?" he asked. "Plants," I told him.
"What do YOU eat?" he asked. "I also eat plants," I said. "And rabbits too."
"Noooooo!" he said. He was appalled. "Don't eat rabbits!"
"But people eat rabbits," I asserted.
"No, eat food!" said Eddie. "Rabbits are food," I told him.
"No, you eat sandwiches," he said.
Well, he got me there.
1. Eddie is Eddie-bear, so that makes you Papa-bear, so sometimes you eat rabbits, though it's probably been a long time since you did.
ReplyDelete2. It'll probably be another year before you can introduce Eddie to the one about going to the beach for lunch, because of all the sand ....