"You can't eat THAT! It's an ANIMAL!"

This afternoon, Lauren wanted to watch some TV. I turned the TV on but didn't immediately change the channel to her show. The channel had some sort of fishing show and the man was scooping a scallop out of its shell. Lauren started asking a zillion questions about what he was doing. Chad grabbed his iTouch and started googling scallops to show her. They talked a little bit about them and she turned to me and began asking me things...

L: Mom? What do you DO with scallops?

M: You eat them. They are delicious!

L: (guffawing) MOM you can't eat them! They are animals!

M: *gulp* (oh boy...is this the moment she become vegetarian?) Yes honey, we eat animals. Chicken, fish, turkey...those are all animals.

L: Yeah?

M: You remember Uncle Rich? He makes REALLY good scallops. We'll have to ask him to make them for us sometime.

L: Yeah!

Quiet. She's thinking...

L: Mom? Auntie Kim makes really good cow.

M: Really?

L: Yeah, it's a kind of egg. Like a shell made of vitamins with a little cow inside!

M: Hmmm...that's really interesting Lauren...

And I quickly changed the channel to a Lauren show.