Sometimes the Mouths of Babes are Batting a Thousand

MV: Is that what you're wearing to E.'s birthday party?
M: Oh! I don't know...
MV: Well it's up to you, honey.
M: It is?
MV: Yes.
M: I thought you meant, please don't wear that to the party.
MV: Ah.
M: Because sometimes people use that word...that way of talking...to mean--
MV: I know.