Ok - The other night, during a mutual bout with insomnia, I vetoed the Disney channel in favor of the Discovery channel. So I was watching a show about dinosaurs - I think it was the Dinosaur Mummy show (really cool, by the way!). In an effort to assuage any potential fears about dinosaurs, I reminded Hannah that the video of dinosaurs was just a drawing, because dinosaurs are extinct now. She replied (rather quickly), "Oh I know. Because of all that rain."
Me (stifling a laugh and a smile): What rain?
Hannah (matter-of-factly): All that rain. It turned into mud.
Me: (stunned pause - Where is she getting this from???)
Hannah: It flooded and so they all drowned.
Me: (still paused)
Hannah: Plus, it was just time for the dinosaurs to die. People were coming alive (later specified by Hannah as "getting born by Heavenly Father & Jesus"), and they didn't want the dinosaurs around. [insert an implied "you know..."] ... so the babies could live.
Me: (waking from my proud stupor, and reaching for a pen and paper to document this moment) Oh. Well that's good they weren't there anymore then.
Hannah: Yep.
Later, still in the throws of this recent insomnia (did I mention that I need a massage???), we watched a second dinosaur show (Dinosaurs: Return to Life - watch a portion here) about the possibility of cloning dinosaurs through the genetic manipulation of chicken eggs, etc. Part of this show also included more CGI videos of "typical" dinosaur life (since we were there and know what that was like, obviously). One such video depicted 2 or 3 dinosaurs as scavengers, eating a larger dead dino. Again I explained that these videos were basically drawings of what we think it was like during the time of the dinosaurs. After watching for a moment Hannah asked, "Why are they eating the blood of each other?"
Me (trying to make scavenging sound less horrible): They're just eating the meat. Because they're hungry... It's just meat.
Hannah (after a second to ponder that): Wait! Am I made of meat?
Me: Yes. We all are.
Hannah (decidedly): Well I hope they don't make the dinosaurs again then.
True. Who doesn't remember Jurassic Park? That didn't exactly end well, now did it...
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OK that cracked me up, the childlike 'self=meat' realization. That is awesome. I'm trying to not LOL as I'm at an internet cafe right now. (No in-room interwebs at the Schofield Inn. Big doh...)
ROTFL - I am dying. Have I told you how much I love your daughter lately? I 2nd Hannah’s motion that they don’t re-make the Dinosaurs. Cause it could only end in tears ;o)
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