Dinner Conversations
These are my FAVORITE part of parenting mixed-age kids. Tonight I said “a platypus is…” and before I could I finish the sentence, Waffle Fry pipes in with, “a beaver-duck?” Not gonna lie. I FULLY lost it. 😂😂😂 “Let me finish my sentence! It’s a monotreme.” Spicy wanted to know what a monotreme was and I said it was non-placental mammal. Daddy thought all mammals birthed live young, which is NOT true because…monotremes…so I explained the three kinds of mammals. Then Spicy asked me to look up zebra-giraffes which don’t sound like a real animal but they ARE. Here’s an okapi just for you, courtesy of animal spot https://images.app.goo.gl/yyCqh4sueQR7fKKN7 And the question I’m sure you’re dying to ask is “why are you discussing platypuses at dinner?” And darling reader, I have NO earthly clue. This is just what happens. It’s the best. And just in case you think nothing bad ever happens over here, I *also* lost it over this, and not in the laughing way. More in the “it’s a good thi