Sunday, July 28, 2013

Chicken? Egg?

The scene: All of us around the table, eating dinner (pizza a la Cook, which is why nobody was whining about the food).

Skipper: Daddy was born the first of all of us in this family.
Cook: Yes.
Skipper: Hey! I have a question. How was the first person born, if there was no other person to give birth?
Me & Cook, in fumbling collaboration: Completely inadequate attempt to explain human evolution in four-year-old-appropriate terms.
Skipper: So... it wasn't Daddy. Daddy wasn't the first person.
Cook: No.

1 comment:

tiffky doofky said...

Now *that* would have been Intelligent Design!

months go by

We are alive! Not much to report. Cook has a new job, still in government, but doing a different kind of work. I have the same job. Duchess ...