(while reading before bedtime)
RJ: Dad, you know Tom is just a kid when he starts the Beast Quest books, but at the end, he’s grown up?
Dad: Yeah. All those adventures must have taken a long time.
RJ: Well… He doesn’t ever buy new clothes.
Dad: I guess he doesn’t.
RJ: So at the end, he must be feeling pretty squished in such small clothes! And they’re probably all falling apart, too!
(extremely excited about a new idea)
RJ: … it’s just like the rice we found growing in Bali, except with the grass and leaf bits taken off and we could plant it in our own garden and have small fields in there, some with rice and some with wheat and some with alfalfa and we could collect it up each year and gather it into big bales and we could have Scarlet carry it around on her back, she’s super strong you know, like one of those animals… called… what are they called again?
Dad: Umm… I’m not sure exactly what you’re talking about…
RJ: You know! Those animals! The ones that carry stuff!
Dad: Animals? That carry stuff?
RJ: Yeah! Hay dogs! That’s it! She could be our hay dog and carry it all around for us and then we could sell it to people at the market!
(a sudden outburst, while eating dinner)
RJ: Okay, new rule! No one in this family is a allowed to turn into a giant!
