Thought process

I love when I get a glimpse of Carter's thought process and reasoning. Yesterday we were having a conversation about food spoiling. He wanted strawberries on his cereal but when I got them out of the fridge I realized they'd gone bad. When I told him he couldn't have them he didn't understand why, since he could clearly see that we had strawberries. He kept asking "Why?". I was trying to come up with a more visual way to explain how food spoils when I remembered bananas. Here's the conversation that followed.

Me: Carter, what happens to bananas when they get old?
C: They get brown and mushy......And then you make banana bread with them.
Me: Yes, sometimes we do. But when strawberries get old and mushy we have to throw them away.
C: But why?
Me: Because if you eat them they'll taste funny and might make your tummy hurt. How about some peaches on your cereal?
C: OK.

*A couple of minutes go by as Carter eats some cereal and peaches.

C: K. So when cookies get brown and mushy....
Me: No honey, cookies don't get brown and mushy. Only things that grow, things like strawberries, and bananas, or tomatoes; things that grow outside on plants or trees.
C: But Mom, if you take cookies outside and put them on the ground they'll get brown and mushy
Me: Well, I guess you're right. A cookie would get brown and mushy if you took it outside and put it on the ground for a while.
*As I turn and walk to the other end of the kitchen I hear Carter mumble
C: And then you can make cookie bread with them.


Apparently, when anything spoil or gets over ripe you can make bread with it. Who knew!