only real

Dylan,

Every night while you sit on the toilet before your shower you ask me to read the Everyone Poops book, usually two or three times. By now you've got most of it memorized, more or less accurately, and I can just turn the pages while you "read" the book to me. You point to every page featuring the little black-haired boy and say "that's me(!) and that's me!"

Pages three and four explain that a "one hump camel makes a one hump poop" and a "two hump camel makes a two hump poop", punchlined by "Only kidding!" At first, you starting adding "Only kidding!" when you finished reading the pages before and/or after the camels. Lately, when you finish those one-off pages you look for eye contact and say "only real" with the exact same intonations.

Dad