3-year-old logic

Like most three-year-old children, Cole says lots of funny things. The best entertainment Floyd and I have is to relate stories about things he has said or done to each other. His favorite thing right now is dinosaurs. At the library this week, he chose a movie about dinosaurs. It's not really meant for preschool-aged children - it's one of those documentary-type movies you would watch in a junior high science class. But Cole loves it. He watches it every day. The first time he was watching it, he kept calling to me - "Mom, come down and watch with me. This show is so ins-tra-string (interesting)." They show some paleontologists working in the field, and I explained to Cole who those scientists were and what they were doing and said to him, "maybe you'd like to be a paleontologist when you grow up." He thought about it for a minute and then said, "actually, when I grow up, I'm going to be a missionary."



We have a dinosaur book that goes into the different theories about how dinosaurs may have become extinct (also not really meant for preschoolers, but oh well). He apparently is having a little trouble understanding what a meteor is. Yesterday in church, I was showing him some pictures and one was of Crater Lake. I explained to him that a meteor hit the earth and made a big hole that was filled with water. His response - "why wasn't it a meat-eater?" I guess they do sound a lot alike, but I'm pretty sure it was a meteor and not a meat-eater that killed off the dinosaurs and made Crater Lake. But I guess I'll look into it - he's been right before!