MORE Dinner Talk

More dinner time conversations of totally normal, non-creepy nature:


MADELEINE: Mama?  I don't LIKE my brain.
ME: Well, why don't you just get rid of it then.
MADELEINE: NOOO!
ME: Then don't say things like you don't like your brain.
JULIA: (wisely) Besides, Madeleine.  You'd be in HEAVEN if you got rid of your brain.
ME: It's true, you can't live without your brain.
MADELEINE: Why?
ME: Because.  No brain, no life.
JULIA: And ALSO, if you switched brains with someone else, you'd be a MAD person.
MADELEINE: But why?
JULIA: Because!
MADELEINE: But why?
JULIA: (wearily) Mommy?  YOU explain it.
ME: Well, you can't actually switch brains with someone else.  But if you could, it would be really strange.  If you had someone else's brain, you'd have someone else's thoughts and memories.  You would be a different person.
JULIA: You'd be like FRANKENSTEIN!
MADELEINE: (delighted) Frankenstein!
JULIA: Yeah.  And what if you had, like, a really SAD and DEPRESSING memory from another person?
MADELEINE: Well Mama.  You'd already be in heaven when you...(making a clicking sound and drawing her hand across her forehead).  You know.  Glue your FOREHEAD back on.
JULIA: Mommy?  Can we go to the Museum of Science again soon? 
ME: Uh, sure...
JULIA: Because Mommy?  Today at school someone from the Museum came in and she was telling us about this exhibit where-
MADELEINE: Well Mama.  UNLESS you're thinking the EXACT SAME THING as the other person is thinking!

Apparently Madeleine still has brain on the brain.  That topic probably won't drop easily.

Maybe she has already switched brains with me.  Maybe it's really Franko-Madeleine writing this blog post.  I don't even know if I'm myself or Madeleine right now.  It's the Rowe household Twilight Zone!!!