Damn You, Disney!

While trying to help Zoey put on her shoes this morning:

Zoey: Octopusses [sic] aren't real.
Me: Yes they are.
Zoey: Oh, I know that (she knows everything, after all). But they can't talk like mermaids can.
Me: ...

Didn't have any idea where to go with that one.

Considering there's a tiny part of me that likes to think Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and aliens are real (I can her you giggling from here), who I am to tell her that mermaids don't exist?

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The preceding is the kind of crap you'll be getting from me this month if I'm going to post daily as I threatened promised. Told you guys to come back in December.