From 3 to 14

I think Sam turned into a teenager this weekend.

I'll admit, I've got a rather sarcastic, blunt sense of humor. But somehow I didn't think she'd be able to replicate that already.

We rented movies Saturday night -- "Lady and the Tramp" for Sammy, "Million Dollar Baby" for my husband and me. As we were leaving the video store, we drove past the elementary school that Sam will attend for kindergarten through fifth grade.

Sam: "Look! There's my school!"

Me: "Yup, that's your school. That's where you'll go when you're bigger."

Sam: "Yeah. I'll learn letters and numbers and then get candy."

Me: "Uh, getting candy isn't really why you go to school. You go to school so you can learn lots of things so that, when you're a grown-up, you'll know what you like to do so that you can go to work and do it every day. Like Daddy -- Daddy likes to build things, so when he goes to work, he builds things. And I like to read and write, so when I go to work, I read and write stories."

Sam (a few seconds of silence, then in a haughty voice): "You just sit in a chair all day."

I almost drove off the road because I was laughing so hard.

Then, while we were watching "Lady and the Tramp," Sam was sitting absolutely rapt. She was narrating the movie to us with about a 10-second delay until about half-way through, when we told her to stop because it was driving us batty. So she sat quietly for a few minutes, then turned to look at me.

Sam: "Dogs don't talk."

Me: "What??"

Sam: "Dogs don't talk. They bark. Why are they talking?"

Unbelievable. I've got a 3-year-old who's a cynic.

What have your kids said that shocks you? What have they surprised you by understanding at a young age?