STORY 3
Elliott: “Mom, do you know there is 1 dinosaur left on earth?”
Mom: “Wow, I didn’t know that. Who is it?”
E: “You have to guess.”
M: “Is it your rhinoceros brother?” (Every since visiting the rhino at the Lincoln Park zoo in Chicago this summer, Elliott has an invisible brother rhino – which is fast enough to run outside the car alongside us, which makes “I spy” rather challenging when he sees something gray, but I digress.)
E: “No, he’s a cousin to Trieratops. Guess again.”
M: “Is it a bird?”
E: “No, that’s a cousin to Pterodactyl. Do you need a hint?”
M: “Yes”
E: “Kkkk”
All of us start guessing – Kangaroo, Cat, Koala.
E: “Do you all give up?”
All: “Yes”
E: Crocodile!!!
STORY 2
Elliott didn’t want to finish his protein shake at breakfast and instead wanted to move onto oatmeal. So, he whispered in my ear:
Elliott: “Mom, I have bags inside my body and the protein shake bag is filled to the top. I cannot fit any more inside my body.”
Mom: “How do you know you have bags inside your body?”
Elliott: “Because I have x-ray vision”