great questions

Asked by Grace in the past two days:

While waiting at the doctors office:

Grace: "My birthday is July 19th"

Me: "Yes, it is"

Grace: "What is "-nth" after the nineteen mean?"

Me: "Um."

Today, as we were passing the prison in Monroe:

Grace: "What building is that?"

Me: "It's called a prison?"

Grace: "What's a prison for?"

Me: "It's for certain people."

Grace: "What is certain people?"

Me: "It's for grown ups that aren't nice to other people"

Grace: "What do they do there?"

Me: "They sit around for a long time."

Grace: "Like a time out?"

A few days ago on our way to Subway for the first time to pick up sandwiches.

Grace: "Where are we going?"

Me: "To Subway."

Gace: "I don't want to ride the train!."