ants are blind

Yesterday was monumental. Two weeks ago, Lil man had asked what a coconut looked like to my horror. Being the great and amazing parent I am, we went to the store and bought a coconut. I explained to him that we can't just cut into it,we would wait to go 'drop' it in our backyard since it's wonderfully created as concrete.

Yesterday was that day, I let him do the honors and it went very well, the coconut broke in half. I managed to grab it before all the water spilled. Lil man was very surprised that it was water and not 'milk' because he had been looking forward to tasting coconut milk. I use coconut milk quite often(from the can)in my cooking but I don't know where he got the idea that the one in the coconut would taste like cow milk.

He tasted the coconut water-that was ok. I explained that the milk comes from squeezing the white part of the coconut. I demonstrated by crushing some in my mouth and spitting it out-gross I know. He tried to eat some of it but he kept spitting it out, finally he begged me to 'squeeze' some in my mouth so that he could taste it-I didn't do it, that will be the work of my handy garlic crusher yet to be accomplished.

A couple hours later we came back to the backyard and each of the little pieces of coconut we had thrown around was surrounded by an army of ants.
So lil man in his wisdom " Why are the ants eating these pieces, they have my spit on them, can't they see the spit...man, ants are blind!"