martin luther vampire

cashel brought his picture home the other day.

jason was watching cashel brush his teeth as i walked into the room with my tongue sticking through the hole in MLK's mouth (because i though that's what the kids had been doing...silly me) and i said, "who's this bud?"
and he said: "martin luther king vampire"

hmmmm.....

that's not exactly the response we expected.

do we want our boy to know who MLK is?  of course! and he'e learning that from us and at school.  the next day i asked him what MLK did and he said, "he helped people be who they are," which is, i think, a great answer for a 4 year old.

his uncle brian was over the next night. his gay uncle, i should say.

that's important because, well, he's gay and we love him and totally support his rights.  we told him and showed him the picture, which he got a kick out of.

well....

about a minute later jason and i both figured out to ask cashel, "were you the only one who made martin luther king a vampire?" to which he responded, "well, courtney scratched out one of his eyes and he was a pirate!"

...there you go folks. hopefully no one is offended by four year old thoughts....