"We need to stop and buy dog food," I informed the short person in the back seat.
"I had dog food for snack today at school," Alexis replied.
After I shook off the initial confusion, I asked her to elaborate. A few minutes later, it was clear as mud that she was talking about a variation of Puppy Chow. THANK GOODNESS.
"So, you didn't eat REAL dog food, right?" I said, just to make sure we were on the same page.
"No, silly!" she replied in an exasperated tone. Because, you know, I'm a dork for even considering that she meant her words literally.
"You know, you used to eat real dog food when you were little," I told her. Treat me like I'm a dork, and I'll drudge up one of your finer moments. It's almost a guarantee.
"When I was a baby?" she asked. Alexis is pretty much obsessed with thoughts of herself as a baby. She could sit and stare at her baby photos for days on end, and would spend every second talking and talking and talking and talking about herself.
"Yes, when you were a baby you used to steal Meg and Cody's food and eat it," I told her.
"You used to yell at me to stop but I didn't listen," she continued the story for me. Her statement was 100% accurate. She paused before adding, "But, it was Jasmine's food, not Cody's!"
Jasmine was our pup before Cody. She died unexpectedly two years ago. Alexis still talks about her on a nearly weekly basis. (Those conversations are just as "fun" as they sound.)
Alexis continued on to provide even more details about her dog food eating ways. She described the dark red bowl that was retired two years ago. She explained the odd C-shape of the food, which we stopped buying easily a year ago. She went on and on to provide details that made it really quite obvious she truly remembers something that happened in 2007. When she was one-year old.
I'm going to have to hope that's the only thing she still remembers from way back then. Otherwise, OMG. WE ARE SO SCREWED.
