conversations with The Bug, age three-and-a-half

Sometimes, I forget that he mostly does pay attention to the words when there's music playing. This'll teach me not to listen to Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, God is in the House, while we're riding in the car...

Bug: Who is god?

Me: Well, different people believe different things about god. A lot of people believe that God made the whole world, and everything in it.

Bug: Well I think a little different about god.

Me: Really?! I think that's great. So what do you think?

Bug: I think god puts people in jail!

As we are leaving the grocery store, The Bug comments about the cashier "She has a mustache!" (She definitely did not.) The Bug and I have the following exchange:

Me: No, she doesn't. Generally, women don't have mustaches - men do.

Bug: But I don't. I'm a boy.

Me: That's right.

Bug: But when I grow up I can grow a mustache. I'll have a mustache and prickly hair and long fur, just like Daddy!

And then, of course, there was the after dinner political conversation, on this, the eve of the Presidential election...

Bug: How do you vote?

Me: Well, here where we vote, there are electronic voting machines. Daddy and I already voted, but next time there's an election we should make sure you can go with one of us to see how it works.

Bug: Yeah, I'm going to vote for Obama. My friends will all vote for McCain.

And yes, these conversations all happened today. Oi.