Is this a telescope?

I was tired this afternoon and was trying to find something that would entertain Eliza while I could take a break and relax. Eliza wanted to act out a book we had read recently. It's about a girl getting her tonsils out. She was the doctor and I was the patient. I was laying down with my eyes closed (since I was "sick") and she went and rifled through my purse and said, "open your mouth." I opened my eyes to see what she was going to stick in my mouth and low and behold...a tampon! I laughed and asked her to put it back. She, of course, wanted to know what it was. I told her it wasn't a tongue depressor but it was for grown up girls. She said, "is this a telescope?" Where did she come up with that? Yeah, I'm just trying to hide a really cool toy from you.

Later this evening, I found Katelyn playing with the same tampon from my purse (it's getting the rounds). I asked her what she had. She said, "this is my carrot!" What imaginations my girls have for such a mundane thing like that. I remember when my brothers were little, they thought they were guns. You can see where they were coming from, you can shoot things out of them.