I went to the doctor the other day, and Caleb was with me. There wasn't much to do while we were waiting, so I started pointed to the chart on the wall, showing the inside organs. He says, "Mom, what's wrong with that guy? What is he sick with?" I said, "He is not sick." He said, "Well, then why is he all blue?" So I said, "Because they are just showing you what he looks like without skin on. Those are the organs that are inside our bodies." So he started asking all these (highly intelligent) questions, like: What's the blue tube going to the heart; what's the red tube going to the heart, and how are they different? What's this bean-shaped thing do (kidney)?; how does pee travel from the kidney out the body? Well, what about poop?"!Well, anyone who knows anything about preschoolers knows that they are all about bodily functions, so I decided a lesson in poop might be just the thing to tie him over until the doctor comes in! Besides, I know ALL about the digestive system, given our family's history. I could talk semi-intelligently about it all day. So we picked up an anatomy book, and I started explaining how saliva starts the process of breaking down food, yadda, yadda . . . By the time I am getting to the large intestine, he stops me and says, "Mom, what is that brown stuff." I said, "What do you think it is?" He said, "I think that's poop!" I said, "That's right." He looks up at me, eyes wide, and says, "That's FASCINATING!"
