Car Conversation

Today in the car, on the way home from running a quick errand with Aunt Hannah:

CJP: Mom, can we go to Wegman's for an adventure?

SLL: Um, I don't know, buddy. You're probably going to have to go the bathroom and Wegman's is kind of at time commitment.

CJP: I think we should go. We should take Aunt Hannah with us to see Wegman's. And I will just check out their bathroom, and then we will have some lunch. We will have Wegman's pizza, and then I will pee. After I check out the bathroom first.

SLL: You ok with peeing at Wegman's? (And yes, he has gotten over his fear of public bathrooms, thank goodness.)

CJP: I can do that. Or I will just hold it until I get home. But probably we should have pizza at Wegman's.

We did. And, he did. Twice.

Then on the way home from Wegman's, as he was getting sleepy:

CJP: Mom? Yesterday (his catch-all for anything that happened in the past) Bidi and I went for a walk and saw a moth stuck to the window of the Jeep. (Mom, remember the Dining Room Moth...last MAY?)

SLL: You did? Was it big? Or was it little?

CJP: It was enormous. It was the size of Daddy!

SLL: That's pretty enormous, all right. What color was he?

CJP, without a pause: Lavender.

SLL: A lavender moth?

CJP: Yes. And he had a lot of red hair.

SLL: Wow. What did he say to you?

CJP: He could not talk, Mommy. He does not have a mouth. So he just flapped his wings. And Bidi and I checked on him every day to see if he was still there until he flew away one day! (Pause.) Mom, can you please turn Sarah McLachlan back up?