So I take the kids to our local Mexican restaurant to meet Tim for dinner. While we are waiting and eating chips with guacamole, Emerson strikes up a conversation with a woman at the next table. This is what I hear:
WOMAN:
I love your name. So how old are you?
EMERSON:
Three but I’m gonna be five and a half soon. I have wine in my bedroom.
SCREECH! TIME TO INTERJECT IN TO THE COVERSATION
ME:
HaHa…isn’t that funny. Well, Emerson is kind of right. She has two wine bottles in her room. But they are from the hospital. When each baby is born the hospital gives a personalized label with the baby’s name and birthdate on a sparkling grape juice bottle! Geez, I bet that sounded great.
It is amazing what children say, when they say it, in the context they say it, and why they say it.