Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Secret mucus

Wow, that's even a double entendre.

Lindsay has been announcing all day, "Yellow cheese has a secret!" I'm telling the Internet - the secret is cheese. I have no idea what that means.

Lauren brought home a book today about the common cold. She did an impressive job reading about viruses and bacteria. One of the ways your body heals itself is by producing extra mucus. Lauren asked, "What's mucus?" "Snot." I replied. She looked utterly horrified and disgusted. I think if the next sentence in the book hadn't been about ushering germs out your nose via the extra mucus, she wouldn't have believed me.

4 comments:

karen said...

When that conversation came up at our house (I think because Grandmoo sent an encyclopaedia of all things gross), Lars brightly retorted, "Snot! I have that!" and then snarfed a bunch into his hand in illustration.

Anonymous said...

from a nursing standpoint, aren't the bodily mechanisms fantastic? the body really is brilliant :)

Bud Fisher said...

And she is scared for life...

LMP said...

Never kiss your honey when your nose is runny you may think it's funny but it snot.