Gross

We recently purchased this book for Logan since he pretty much finds gross things funny at any time of day. This morning at the breakfast table, he graced us with this joke:

Why did the kid bring a toilet to the party?
Because he was a party pooper.

Cue delighted, uproarious laughter from both boys.

The other side to the book is things that gross Logan out enough to cause him deep concern for his life. For example, he was reading it last night in bed and after a short while he came to find me, with a terrified look on his face. He asked me to tell him this wasn't true and pointed to a little info box on one of the pages that talked about how mosquitos suck your blood when they bite. I told him it was true and the terror deepened as he discovered that mosquitos do, in fact, reside in this area of the country. I asked him what about it specifically was so scary for him - was he afraid it would hurt, or did he think they'd drink too much blood, or was it just the blood itself that was bothering him? He looked at the floor and said he was scared that they'd bite him and eat so much blood from him that he'd become a vampire. We talked about how 1) vampires don't exist, 2) a mosquito can't possibly drink that much of a person's blood, and 3) vampires really don't exist ("You already said that!" "I know! It's that important!") and a few minutes later he went back to bed feeling better.

So, to sum up: Cheers to gross jokes that make little boys laugh. Jeers to little boys worrying their very lives will be sucked from them until they become unholy minions of the night. [Does anyone read TV Guide anymore?]