Quote of the Day

A conversation I had with Mattie, after finishing "The Hungry Caterpillar":

Mattie: Do you like this butterfly? I am a butterfly. I changed form a caterpillar to a butterfly!
Me: Did you have a metamorphosis? (We had watched Sesame Street earlier that morning, where metamorphosis was the word of the day.)
Mattie: (Staring at me,) What?
Me: Do you remember the word metamorphosis from Sesame Street?
Mattie: Do you like this word? I like hypothesis!
(Now it was my turn to stare, dumbfounded.)
Me: Who told you that word, Mattie?
(Silence)
Me: Did you hear that word from someone?
Mattie: Do you know what hypothesis is?
Me: Do you?
Mattie: Yes. It's something in a T-Rex's mouth!