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(while eating breakfast)

RJ: I’ve built a bridge in my breakfast!

Dad: Who’s the bridge for?

RJ: The polar bears, so they don’t have to swim.

Dad: But polar bears can swim really well!

RJ: Yes, but it disturbs the cute little ammonites.

Dad: Aren’t ammonites extinct?

RJ: (whispering) Yes. They’re really nautiluses. Shhh.

Dad: Gotcha.

RJ: Also, the polar bears are afraid of the ice creatures.

Dad: Ice creatures?

RJ: There are big ice creatures in the water. The bears stand on the bridge and tease them, but sometimes they fall off and the ice creatures eat them.

(on the way to school)

Dad: You’re brining your ammonite fossil?

RJ: Yeah. I want to show it for news.

Dad: Be extra super careful with it… Most kids don’t get to bring ammonites to school. Know why?

RJ: Because they’re really hard to find?

Dad: Yep… but mostly because their parents know they are going to drop them.

RJ: I think there’s a rule. You can drop them one time, and that’s okay, but drop them two times and you’re out. No more fossils for you.