20 questions

We have officially reached the stage where Cayden's curious 4 year old mind wants to know about absolutely everything.  As his mom I am so excited to see his little mind at work and know that he is not only observing the world around him but really wants to understand it.  However, I am also completely exhausted by it.  A 10 minute car ride can and does yield about a million questions about anything and everything he sees.  Forget about trying to watch something on TV while he is in the room or walk through a crowded store because those 1 million questions that I answered on the way were just the tip of the iceberg.  And saying "I don't know" is not an option.  I have tried to tell him that I just don't know why those people are wearing black shirts instead of red like he is or that I am not sure why the person in the movie I have never seen before is driving down that road but all that does is causes the same question to be repeated 30 seconds later.  Understandable, right?  Why wouldn't I know why the the car in front of us in the car wash was there first or why the kid in the other cart is crying in the middle of Target?  I am Mommy, I am supposed to have the answers.  But, I have to tell you, coming up with answers to every question (and I mean valid answers because I don't want him going to school the next day telling his friends something extremely inappropriate because I couldn't come up with the "right" answer) is a lot of pressure. 

When I actually stop to think about this though, I realize that this stage is just another step in his giant leap towards becoming a "big kid!"  Every day he is doing something new, telling me a new story about something that he is certain he has completely figured out or using new words that I didn't even know that he had heard before and using them correctly.  He has even completely grown out of toddler sized clothing.  It is sad to know that I now have to shop in the big kid section for him and that refers to himself as a big kid now.