Dinosaurs- April 1, 2015

My daughter’s cleverness never fails to amaze and amuse me. I want to write down the things she says so I will remember them. I forget so quickly. Here we go.

In the car today:

Charlotte: “Mommy, how did we get here on earth?”

Me: “You mean, humans?”

Charlotte: “Yeah.”

Me: “Well, God created us a long time ago after billions of years of the earth forming.” (I was trying to come up with some hybrid of Big Bang/Evolution/Creationism that wouldn’t be saying “I don’t know.” but, also wouldn’t be lying. Don’t judge me. Parenting is hard.)

Charlotte: “Like, we were here with the animals?”

Me: “Well, the dinosaurs were here first, but then they all went away.”

Charlotte: (Pointing at an askew road sign.) “So, is that why the sign is all tippy?”

Cue the Emoji laughing with tears. Any sign I saw the rest of the day, I imagined a dinosaur knocking it over. Isn’t that much more amazing than the likely story?