Bud Hunt :: Weblog :: Talk about Melting

June 05, 2008

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My wife sent me the following exchange via e-mail today, a conversation between herself and Ani, who’s three and not quite a half:



A lunchtime conversation:


Ani:  My ice cream is too cold to eat.


Me:  Well, you can wait and let it warm up, but it will melt.


Ani:  I can eat it when it’s melted.


Me:  Yes, but you might have to drink it through a straw.  Ice cream is like Frosty the Snowman — it melts.


Ani:  Chocolate melts.


Me:  Yes.  What else melts?


Ani:  I don’t know.


Me:  Does ice melt?


Ani:  Yes.


Me:  Do strawberries melt?


Ani:  No.


Me:  Do popsicles melt?


Ani:  Yes.


Me:  Do people melt?


Ani (in that of-course-not-you’re-so-silly tone):  No!  (Then matter-of-factly): They die, though.


Smart kid.  Wise, maybe.  Just saying.




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