The real reason dinosaurs went extinct
January 7, 2009Besh has recently discovered the joy of watching movies in the home theater. Current playlist includes Hairspray (the musical), Mary Poppins (which he unfortunately no longer mispronounces as Mary Popsins because that was awesome), Elf (he loves the spaghetti scene), and one of the Land Before Time movies (honestly, I’m not going to look up which number).
Over the weekend, Besh had just finished a long play session and the Land Before Time movie and it was time for dinner.
Me: “Besh, before we go down for dinner let’s go peepee on the potty.”
Besh: “I don’t need to.”
“Are you sure?”
“I’m sure.”
“It’s been a long time since you went peepee.”
He pointed at the screen.
“The dinosaurs didn’t go peepee the whole movie.”
I think all five of my readers can appreciate how much it took for me not to make the extinction joke right then. I saved it for the blog title.
Me: “You’re right, but as soon as the movie was over they all went peepee.” {wheels spinning wheels spinning wheels spinning} “Because they all did a good job holding it just like you! So let’s go peepee like a dinosaur!”
“Yeah! Yay dinosaur peepee!”
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