How to give an eel a wedgie?

Actually this conversation started out with: "What does an eel taste like when you take the electricity out?" That was the original question my 5-year-old asked me. Where does he come up with these things?

So his Dad suggests I show him pictures of eels online and sometime he will take him to try eel in a restaurant.

"Do eels have fins? If they do, they must be under their arm pits?" he said with a little giggle while he waits for the page to load. Connor, you can be so crazy sometimes.

That leads us to a website that features pictures of eels and then some underwater wrecks, including a silly picture of four underwater divers pretending to use the bathroom facilities in a sunken ship.

Connor loves it even more than the eel pictures and the lifecycle of the yellow eel that we discover.

Now, he starts to giggle. "Mom, type 'How to give a eel a wedgie.' Come on, do it Mom." He giggles harder after I type, although he can't read the words yet. I could have typed, 'How to appease a goofy five-year-old' for all he knew. But it has satisfied him for now and he's off onto another topic or three in the next few minutes.

A lady asked me on the bus yesterday if I couldn't wait until they grow up. At times, yes. But not at this moment.