As we were finishing dinner at Red Lobster tonight, Eleanor started talking about how she used to be as small as a dot, which she read about in When You Were in Mommy. Agnes said, “Both of you were as small as a dot when you were in me.”

Miranda asked, “How did we get in you?”

Agnes stared at Miranda for a moment, looked at me and said, “Daddy?”

Uh…

I told them that I put them in there, which isn’t a very good answer, but I hoped it would be enough.

Miranda persisted, “But how did we get in there?”

I told them that it was complicated and didn’t explain any further. We changed the topic.

It wasn’t a very good answer on our part. We have to think about this one.

We made a toy airplane out of locking blocks, and the kids were playing with it tonight. Miranda said, “I need to pee pee!” and had a pretend person go to the back of the plane to use the bathroom. I’ve never heard of kids pretending to use the lavatory as part of playing with airplanes.