"Those silly fish slappers!"

Me: "Eli, what is your favorite Bible story?"
Eli: "Jonah and the whale."
Me: "Tell me about it."
Eli: "So, this guy named Jonah got on a boat and fell off and a big whale ate him. Then the big whale frowed him up on the sand."
Emma(in her best big sister totally exasperated w/her little brother voice): "There's more to the story than just that Eli."
Me: "OK, Eli, why did Jonah get on the boat?"
Eli: "Well, he wasn't minding God and was going to wrong way."
Me: "What did God tell him to do?"
Emma: "God told him to go to Nineveh to tell the people about God. But Johan didn't want to go to Nineveh."
Me: "Why didn't Johan want to go to Nineveh?"
Emma: "The people of Nineveh were mean!"
Eli: "They slapped each other in the face with fishes! Mom, can you believe that? Those silly fish slappers!"
Me & Emma: LOL!
Eli: "Mom, why would they slap people in the face with fishes?"
Me: "Well honey, I don't think they really slapped people in the face with fishes. I think the Ninevites were just ugly people. They were mean to others and did things that God didn't like. The slapping with fishes was just a VeggieTale thing to show you how mean they were."
Eli: "No Mom! They really slapped people in the face with fishes and that's why Jonah didn't want to go there."
Me: "OK Eli."
Eli: "Are we almost to Mimi and Papa's yet?"

Did you know that Jonah is an asparagus? Oh, the things you can learn from VeggieTales!