Wise four-year-old

For whatever reason, Scott's hours have been especially hard on Alysson the past couple of weeks. I think because he is on home call at the VA, so she thinks he's home to play, and then he has to go in to the hospital. Who knows. Anyway, when Scott has to go in, she always asks why daddy has to go to work. I say things along the lines of "people are sick, and he needs to help." Today she said she was sick (not true) and needed help so daddy should stay home. So I told her daddy had to go to work so we could have money to eat. To which she replied, "But we don't eat money; that would be gross."