Headaches, Pads, and Man Logic

Other than waking my youngest son twice during his nap, the cat has been pretty well behaved today. I guess it kind of helps that I wasn't home this afternoon. However, late this afternoon, he did the flying squirrel thing onto Wyatt's head. "Mama, make him stop!" Awesome.

Do you ever wonder how a child's mind works? The way they come up with things, or their method of reasoning? I was pondering this subject for quite a while this morning. Wyatt told me he needed to go potty, and let himself into the bathroom. After he was in there for a while and it became mysteriously quiet (the kind of quiet every parent knows--there's a difference between quiet and quiet), I decided to get up and check on him. I slowly opened the bathroom door, afraid of what I might find. I peeked in, and lo and behold, Wyatt was standing there looking up at me all innocently.

"Mama, I have a headache," he said sweetly. I told him that I would get him a nice, cold drink, and he could rest on the couch and watch TV. "But Mama, I have a headache."

I wasn't quite following the conversation as well as I thought I was. He held up his foot for me to see. He had gotten into a box of feminine pads, took the sticker thing off the back, and stuck it to the top of his foot, with the ends of the pad wrapped under either side. I stared at him, puzzled and amused. A headache? Really? What does a pad have to do with a headache? (Well, a lot of things, but he doesn't know that.) I bent down to peel the pad off his foot and throw it away. Wyatt got upset, and I tried to explain that pads were not for headaches, but for big girls. Yeah, I don't think the concept went far. I can use this story for blackmail later on, though. And if he had a headache, why did he put the pad on his foot? I have been puzzling over his thought processes most of the day. Could this fall under the category that I have named "Man Logic"? You know, the stupid crap some men come up with, that only men do. Like, why spend so much time backing into a parking place? The man will say that it's because it will be easier to pull out. Well, isn't it just as easy pulling into a parking place and backing out of it later? I mean, why spend so much time trying to perfectly back into a spot? One way or another, there will be some backing out eventually. That, my friends, is an example of "Man Logic." Pad on foot for headache. Man Logic at age 3? Perhaps.