Know it all

This morning I woke up to Joshua telling us that the toilet had overflowed.  Always a good way to wake up.  He has this new thing where he needs half a roll of toilet paper to blow his nose and instead of the trash can, the unused wad of toilet paper goes into the toilet.  So, we then proceeded to discuss the three square limit on nose blowing.  He left the room as I laid my head back down on the pillow, not quite ready to wake up.  (This goes back to our not wake up time if still dark outside rule).  Of course, my eyes were soon again open to the sound of Joshy moving a bag full of blankets as tall as he is out of his closet (a prior space saver bag failure) and moving his chair in.  “Joshua.  What are you doing?”.  “I am standing on the chair to get my race car off the shelf”.  By race car he means race car track.  As my head goes back on the pillow I tell John, who is just now stirring, “Joshy is about to pull a bunch of track onto his head”.  Then feeling guilty at my initial instinct to choose sleep over stopping him, I again call Joshy into the room, mourning the loss of any chance of more sleep, and discuss the idea of climbing up to his top shelf in his closet and pulling things down.  Two thumbs up on initiative though.  And while there, we decided to rehash the three square rule.  He said “I know.”  “You know, huh?”  “Yep, I know everything”.  “Everything?”  “Yep everything”.  “Okay, then why is the sky blue?”  “Because it is wearing a blue shirt.” (his tone providing an understood "duh")  “Ah.  Why can’t we fly?”  “Because we don’t have wings.”  “Why can’t we breathe under water?”  “Because there is no air in water.”  “Why isn’t water red?”  “Because God didn’t make it red." he says with each word emphasized, as any adult would when putting the kabash on a "why" conversation, before tacking on, "Besides, if it was red it would be lava”.  I can't argue with that.