Conversations with My (Almost)Four-Year-Old Nephew

on that game with rooks and pawns
"do you want to play chest?"

on baseball
"do you want to be the pitcher... or the fetcher?"

on spraying others with silly string
"this is fun!"

on being sprayed with silly string
"that's enough!"

on the clark kent/superman effect
"T! you look like a very different girl!"

on hearing me sing as a toddler
"can you stop that please? it's hurting my ears."

(It's only a matter of time before he says the same thing about my writing.)