Little bear thinks about things

Just to say about the books - little bear asked for lots and lots of books.  Ten of those books are age appropriate joke books.  I expect to suffer, but it will do his playground cred no harm.  As for the number of books, they are the ones that I have either bought myself or on behalf of darling uncle.  All bets are off for anyone else.  We could be looking at three figures.   And I honestly believe that unless the books are really off the scale, little bear will love and read them all.  He really will.  He has five hundred books and has read them all, most of them many times - although they are mostly the flimsy ones that are only a few pages long.  I have included an age appropriate book on how to write stories.  I would love him to be a famous author.

This evening Little bear and I were waiting in Morrisons cafe until OH could pick us up after the weekly shopping battle.  Little bear asked, 'Who was the first human?' 
'I don't know.' I said.  'It was a very long time ago.'
'Did they live in year one?' he asked.
'No, that was the year that Jesus was born.' I said, ignoring all the theological discussion around the date.  'There were lots of humans around before that.  But we don't know their names because they didn't have writing to write them down.  We have had writing for about five thousand years, but there were humans around for a lot longer than that, thousands and thousands more years.'
Little bear thought about it for a few moments.  'So there were humans that didn't have writing?' he asked.  'Then how did they write shopping lists?'
I tried to explain about hunter gatherers, but I don't think I really got through to him.  I suspect he thinks I am telling tall tales.

I should have stuck to Adam and Eve.