Some philosophy from Kenna

I had made celery sticks with peanut butter, but was telling Kenna they were actually crunchy squid tentacles with octopus poo.

(I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the children don't immediately believe everything I tell them anymore...)

Adam: Here's your squid tentacles with octopus poo.

Kenna: Daddy! That's not squid. You're silly.

Adam: Yes it is. But don't eat all of them, three of them are for me.

Kenna: No! They're all mine. Except maybe you can have one.

Adam: No, I need three of them.

Kenna: No-- they're mine.

Adam: But I need them, what if I die because I don't eat them?

Kenna: Well, you can't live forever.

Adam: Sorry, what?

Kenna: You can't live forever. Nobody lives forever.

Adam: I see. And how do you know that?

Kenna: From school.

Adam (getting concerned, now): From school? Who told you at school?

Kenna: It's from the song about Puff.

Adam: Puff?

Kenna: Puff the magic dragon. 'Dragons live forever, but not so girls and boys.'

Adam: Oh, I see. Okay. Eat your tentacles.