Ryley has a very bad habit of crawling into bed with us during the early morning hours. We love the cuddling, of course, but since we're actually often still asleep, it can be kind of annoying to be jostled and kicked and elbowed and whispered to at 6 a.m.
"Mommy, let's play 'I Spy'!"
"Mommy, what do you want to talk about?"
"Oh, let's play the Rhyming Game!"
But a couple of days ago, she woke us up with a very serious, important question.
"What is a mummy?"
That sounded to me like a question for Daddy. Now, in the long-run, I should probably re-think my whole "that's a question for Daddy" stance on life. Ryley is beginning to assume that I am not as smart as her daddy, which is absolutely not true. I'm smarter. We all know that. I'm just not quite as patient with the multitude of questions and the complicated answers. :-)
So anyway, we woke up Ryan, and he delved into a long explanation about Egypt, ancient mummification practices, King Tut, etc. Ryley was extremely wide-eyed and continued to contribute thoughtful questions.
Somehow the conversation quickly (and without explanation) turned to the Test Track ride we rode at Epcot at Disney World. The ride was all about testing fast cars. I forget how it all went down, but Ryley alluded to the fact that she remembered seeing mummies in that ride. We told her she hadn't. She insisted that she had -- that the cars had had mummies in them to pretend like they were drivers.
Dummies! Dummies, Ryley, dummies. NOT mummies.
Ryan then explained what a dummy was, how it's never been a real person but just looks like one, and what it's used for. We assured her that the dummies we saw on the Epcot ride had never, ever been real, living people. But what an interesting thing to get confused!!!! Has she really thought, all this time, that those were actual dead people scattered around that ride?
And using her pure, five-year-old logic, Ryley replied, "Well, they could use mummies instead of dummies to test cars if they wanted to... because they're already dead."
Hmmmm. How about it, GM? Honestly, how much more realistic can you get? ;-)
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haha! that's great. how silly of them to make plastic people when they could just use the dead people already hanging around. =)
Sometimes they do use corpses to test cars! So don't donate your body to science, and don't tell Ryley. Next time you go to Florida you'll have to ride The Mummy at Universal if Ryley is old enough.
that is too funny...what a curious, thought-provoking little girl. :)
I am beginning to wonder what is wrong with my children and why don't they ask such thought provoking questions??
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