The eye of the beholder and the single mom

This is just a short little entry to share a funny comment my son made the other day (yes, in the car).

He, like many other children, likes to pretend he's different things. In fact, most days when I pick him up from daycare, the first thing he asks is, "Know what I am today?" It's often an animal of some variety or a superhero or something. (Or sometimes something bizarrely specific and rather odd like "a regular boy who has a red sword that can transform into a big truck." Um, OK.)

On a recent day, he was being a car.

"I have eyes and a mouth. But no nose. That would be silly for a car to have a nose, right Mom?"

Yes, son, totally silly for a car to have a nose. Totally normal and unsilly to have eyes and a mouth. But a nose? Well, that's just one too far.

"Silly," it seems, is in the eye of the beholder.