mystery solved

The past few days when Cal would ask to go outside, it would be the start of an extended conversation along these lines…

Cal : “Me go out?!”

Grownup : “Yes, you can go out.”

Cal : “Me feet flop flop?”

Grownup: “No, you don’t need flip flops on.”

(Repeat the last two lines about 50 times, and then add the grownup saying “Please stop asking that.”)

Cal : “Me doggy feet?”

Grownup : “What?”

Cal : “Me doggy feet?”

Grownup : “Uh, doggy feet? We don’t know what that means, just go outside.”

Finally, we have an answer about the doggy feet. As my mom was having this discussion with Cal today, she had an epiphany! Doggy feet = Bare feet. Cal sleeps with quite the menagerie, including a doggy and a bear, and he has always seen the two as interchangeable. Anyway, we are glad to understand and he is glad to be understood.