Overheard

My three-year-old (S3) and five-year-old (S2) are eating breakfast in the dining room, while I'm making their lunches in the kitchen. S3 has something with Diego on it (Diego = Dora the Explorer's cousin, spin off tv show that incidentally, nobody in my family watches).

S2: Do you like Diego?
S3: Yes
S2: Do you love Diego?
S3: Yes, I love Diego
S2: Then why don't you marry him?! (he's proud of himself for setting up that joke yet again)
S3: Yes, I want to marry Diego
S2: You can't marry Diego

And here I swoop in, thinking what a wonderful teaching moment this is about tolerance and acceptance and whatnot.

Me: Why can't he marry Diego?
S2: Because he's a character.

I shut up and keep making their lunches, outsmarted by a 5 year old.