Eliana got a new pencil at school today, and she wanted to carry it on the walk home. I made her promise that she would only walk, and not run, skip, or gallop. (These things must be distinguished.) She asked, "why can I not run?"
Me: "Because you could fall and poke your eye out with the pencil."
Elly: "Ouchie. And then you'd have to take me to the hospital so they could make me a new eye."
Me: "Well, honey, they don't make new eyes."
5 minutes pass.
Elly: "But I know how to make a new eye. You take some jello and you make it white, and you make it into half a circle. Then you get some more jello and you make it the color of your eyes, and you put it together, and you smoosh it into your eye."
Me: "Oh. Well, you're right, they can make fake eyes that would make you look like you had an eye, but you still wouldn't be able to see."
Elly: "Oh sure, Mommy, all you have to do is put some seeing juice in the eye."
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