Dinosaurs!

One of the charming things about having very young children is the hilarious remark that will often pop out of their mouth.

Take today, for instance.

We were at a Christmas-type store, looking to purchase a Department 56 piece for our Christmas village. (I almost wrote "holiday" village - shame on me!)

We were looking to purchase a new building to add to our collection, which has been a tradition each year. We'll usually purchase an accessory, little figurine people, or a building. This year, in honor of our son, Ethan, who loves fire stations and anything involving emergencies or sirens, we were looking specifically for a fire station.

As we surveyed the display of tiny villages and buildings, suddenly Ethan says, "Look! Dinosaurs!"

Confused, I turned to see what he was pointing to. (Surely, there are no dinosaurs in the Dickens village...)

A camel. Ethan was looking at a camel in a nativity scene.

A classic. He thought the camel was a dinosaur.

This ranks up there with the comment he made the first time we brought him to the beach.

"Look!" he said. "Chickens!"

And of course what he saw were seagulls.

I wonder what a seagull would taste like in my sandwich.