When children speak

You know when your kids are babies and toddlers and you look forward to the day when they can verbally articulate their needs and thoughts to you. Why do we do that? I'm certain I never imagined a day when I'd be driving down the road, minding my own business, and from the backseat my 5 yr. old son would randomly, quite out of the blue say:

"Hey, Mom? If Sponge Bob died, he would bleed yellow."


Boy, talk about non sequitur. Maybe I don't really need to know what goes on inside his head.