What Kind Of Birds Don't Fly?

My step daughter my own daughter, and I were working on answering the chapter questions in a nature study book.

We were in a chapter about birds so of course the questions at the end of the chapter were referring to our feathered friends.

Maybe this isn't so dumb, now that I think about it, but it has to be shared. heh, heh.

One of the chapter study questions asked "What kinds of birds don't fly?"

My own daughter came up with "Penguins!"

And then "Turkeys!" she shouted for these two girls were always in competition with each other and if shouting helped gain more attention from me then they'd shout the roof right off the house.

"No", I said, "Turkeys actually can fly, if they're not fattened up for Thanksgiving. The pilgrims and Indians had to hunt for their turkeys and in those days all the turkeys were wild and more skinny so they could get themselves up off the ground."

The two girls pondered this for a bit and I could almost see them picturing plump, "naked" or plucked turkeys with no heads flying about while pilgrims and Indians ran around trying to catch their bald birds.

"Well, can you think of another bird that doesn't fly?" i asked both girls.

"Peacocks!" my daughter shouted out before the other had any chance of claiming Peacocks before she did.

"Okay, Sami, what about it? Can you think of any type of bird that doesn't fly?"

With her hand on her chin and her eyes turned up as though in deep thought, she dragged her response time out as long as she thought she could just to tease her sis.

Suddenly, she snapped up and with eyes wide and a huge grin on her face (because she was so much smarter than her sis!) she shouted
"I know what kinds of birds don't fly!, A DEAD BIRD!"

She was serious as you-know-what which made it even harder for me not to bust a gut laughing!

Too cute. Maybe not so dumb, but definitely cute.