point taken March 10, 2008
I’m driving the girls to school, when Dina asks:
Dina: So how old is Caillou by now?
Me: (warmly, not without a little bit of condescension) Oh, well, he’s a cartoon character, so he doesn’t age. Just like it says in the song, “I’m just a kid who’s four…”
Silence, and she let’s me leave it at that. But then, the next day, in the car, I’m telling yosefblog this charming little story of childhood innocence and misunderstanding, when it suddenly occurs to me:
Me: Wait, Dina; did you ask how old Caillou is because the song goes “I’m just a kid who’s four, each day I grow some more“?
Dina: (emphatically, and not without a little bit of condescension) Yeeeeeesssss! (pause) I think he’s 15 by now.
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