From the mouth's of children

I love listening to the conversations of children. They are so random and sooo funny. Matt has a friend over today. During our Mac & Cheese lunch I overheard (and was a part of) this silly conversation. Here is what I remembered or what I finally wrote down. I'll change Matt's friend's name to "Sally" for protection purposes (or so that her mother isn't embarrassed).

It started out talking about volcanoes and lava.
Sally "Lava can burn you"
Matt "Superman can walk through lava. He can also be part of a train track, so if the track breaks, he can make himself be part of the train track and the train can go over him" (Matt has never seen Superman, but apparently he's seen a commercial or something)
Me "Superman is not real.. If a real person did that, they would die"
S "but real people can fix the track"
M "But Superman has powers"
Me " Yes. but he's on TV and he's not real"
S "But Jesus has powers"
Me "Yes. Jesus did a lot of amazing things"
S " And Jesus is real , and He's ressurected"
Me "That's right"
S "The bad guys killed Him and then the nice people took Him down and put Him in a tomb"
M "And the rock was too heavy to move"
Me "Yep, but 2 angels helped move the rock, didn't they?"
S "Do they have powers?"
M "Batman and Spiderman have powers"
Me "But they're not real"

Then the conversation took a turn where "Sally" announced that she had new underwear and it would be ok for her to show us cause they were longer. "See? There's a heart on it. Someday I want my last name to be "Heart". I said that she'd have to find someone to marry that has the last name of "Heart". Then she inforrmed us that she wanted to marry Ben, who was in her class.

Then the conversation turned to mosquitoes and bugs that drink your blood. But not that much blood, only a tiny bit, and it makes a dot that itches. Matt responded that when he was at the park one of his girlfriends (cause he has sooo many!) slapped a mosquito off his arm and killed it. "Sally" looked a little conerned when Matt started talking about his other girlfriends. Hee hee.

That reminds me of another time when we were at another girl's house last year, and she and Matt were playing house. The little girl said to Matt, "maybe when I get bigger I'll marry you for real". Then Matt said something about marrying another girl (whose name I forget now, but I will call Jessica). Then his friend stood up, put her hands on her waist and asked, in a very demanding voice, "Who's Jessica?!!!!" I thought this was very funny. Young love at 4!

Anyway, I digress from the lunchtime conversation. The two kids ( who are 5 and almost 5) then started on "Knock, knock" jokes. I did document this. Here goes.

Sally "Knock, knock"
Matt "Who's there?"
S "Orange"
M "Orange who?"
S "The biggest orange in the world"

And there was much giggling.

M "Knock, knock"
S "Who's there?"
M "Spanky."
S "Spanky who?"
M "Spanky monkey"

More giggling

Sally "Knock, knock"
Matt "Who's there?"
S "Water"
M "Water who?"
S "Water on your shirt"

Sally "Knock, knock"
Matt "Who's there?"
S "Cup"
M "Cup who?"
S "Cup on your head"

Where do they come up with these and why do they think they're funny? Here's more.

M "Knock, knock"
S "Who's there?"
M "Zinky
S "Zinky who?"
M "Zinky banana"

Sally "Knock, knock"
Matt "Who's there?"
S "Dog"
M "Dog who?"
S "Dog bit you all over the place and now you're dead"

Sally "Knock, knock"
Matt "Who's there?"
S "Princess"
M "Princess who?"
S "The prettiest princess dress ever"
Matt's response to this one was NOT giggling. He groaned and said "blech". That's my boy.