Me: Noah, drink your hot tea, please.

Noah: I caaaaaan’t because there are numples in there.

Me: Numples, what are numples?

Noah: They are the brown and white things that hold all the flew fairies in them.

Me: Oh and you can’t drink them because…

Noah: they have the fairies in them, I told you.

+++

 Ivy: Mummy, come here! I have to tell you a secret.

Me: Okay, what’s the secret?

 Ivy (In over dramatic stage whisper) : “Snails have hand - tenners and when you touch them they go down!”

Why can’t we stay right at this age?