The other night we were eating dinner when Riah asked me a question:
“Did you know that Gogurts only eat grapes and grass?”
Perplexed, I asked:
“Gogurts? What do you mean? Like those yogurts in the packets that you eat?”
“No, no, GO-GURTS. Like, the animal.”
“Riah I have no idea what you mean. There are no animals named Gogurts. Do you mean…um…lizards maybe?”
“No! We learned about them in school today.”
I was so confused and for the life of me couldn’t think of what he was talking about. I asked him a few more times what he meant, fishing for the answer and hoping one of my questions would stick. They didn’t.
Then, thankfully, Allan swooped in and saved the day:
“Riah, do you mean groundhogs?” he asked with obvious annoyance.
“Oh. Yeeeaaaah. Groundhogs!” Riah responded with the biggest smile on his face, clearly thinking his use of the word “gogurt” was just as funny as I thought it was.
The entire interaction made me laugh and I couldn’t help but think: how lucky are we, for both our boys.