... i read about it in a book...

a conversation from our dinner table:

K: What does 'companion" mean?

me: It's the people you have around you. The people and other animals you have with you.

K: With me?

me: Like your stuffed animals. They're your companions. They keep you company.

L: Like... my dolly?

me: Yes! Your dolly.

K: And my dolly?

me: Yup!

L: And my... nose-y?

me: No, not your nose

L (giggling): Or my pootypooty

me: No. (turning to K) We can look up words if we don't know them.

K: 'Look up words?'

me: Yeah, in a dictionary. (turning to the bookshelf above the table) I used to have... It's a book... a book... you look up words...

K: If they're not on the computer? Look them up?

me (laughing with M): Uh, yeah, you can look words up on the computer. But dictionaries were from before computers.

K: You have a dictionary?

me (possibly indignant): Yeah! I have a lot of dictionaries!!