Interrogation

I'm not really sure how anyone has an actual conversation with a two-year-old. I mean, one where you are trying to get information out of them. If you had been driving home with us this afternoon, you would have heard the following...

*Tooth clacking noises from the back seat*

Mama: Are you eating something?

Little Bear: Yes.

M: What are you eating?
LB: Nothing.

M: What is that noise, then?
LB: Do you hear something?
M: Yes, are you making noise with your teeth?
LB: Yes. 

M: Is something in your mouth?
LB: Is something in your mouth?

M: What is in your mouth?

LB: There's something in my teeth.

M: Ok, when we get home, I'll get it out for you.

LB: NO! They are my special teeth.
M: But you said something was in them.
LB: I'm just pretending.
M: Pretending what?
LB: Just pretending, don't worry.

*noises continue*
M: Are you pretending to eat something?
LB: Yes.
M: What?
LB: I want to find my telescope and then go into the quiet forest to find Isa the Iguana.

(When we got home, it turned out that she was putting the harness adjustment strap from her car seat into her mouth and then pulling it out, causing her teeth to make that horrible noise!)