“Then, he asked his father rather cautiously, “Dad, are poisonperries really poison?”
I love the way toddlers take a piece of real information and misapply it, through their limited experience but expansive imaginations, to all that happens around them.
My sons did this often and provided much belly laughter to the adults around them. These observations are why we bother to live on earth as far as I am concerned! My husband and I bonded with the never ending the inside joke of life with children.
The look on his face was priceless as he watched his parents and siblings scarf down that pie! Fear mixed with curiosity. But he wasn’t taking a chance until we explained it. Then he enjoyed his pie too.