"Tell me more about that"

"Tell me more about that" is Sam's new favorite question/phrase. If you are a parent, or just like to laugh at them whenever you hear their kid ask "why" one hundred times, "tell me more about that" goes way beyond "why?" Why? At least with "why" eventually it will devolve into "because that's how God created this or that" or "you'll have to ask God when we pray tonight."

With "tell me more about that" it NEVER ends. I love Sam's inquisitive mind, his incredible imagination and his ability to comprehend a lot of what we're saying when we do tell him more about that. That being said, it's hard to be driving home trying to explain the aerodynamics/mechanics of why Larryboy's airplane can go from being a car, to a plane, to crashing into the ground without actually crashing because it exchanged the nose of the plane for a bore head and is drilling into the depths of Bumblyburg. (While maintaining enough focus on my driving so as not to crash myself.) I tried to just say that it was just because the car changed parts when the buttons were pushed and leave it, but he wanted to know what a bore head does. I had to "tell him more about that", and then I had to explain how Larryboy's plane can fly in the first place. Then I had to explain why Larryboy had to fly high into the air to be able to crash into the ground with enough force; and then why he couldn't just drive down. Somehow I managed to muddle through without giving him a load of bad information that would need to be corrected down the road when he's in the top of his class at the CO School of Mines, because this kid remembers everything and has brought up that specific conversation since, and eventually segued it over to Larryboy flying to visit Uncle Eric in Alaska.

BUT then I had to tell him more about that.

[P.S. If anyone out there has any statics/chemistry/physics/geology/etc. textbooks lying around, I might need to borrow them. I don't think "Physics for Dummies" is going to hack it much longer :S]