#3 is so three years old. Her wise cracks have been bringing a smile to my face this week. There has been lots of talk of ghostesses, vampirates and scary mommies.
Jack and the Bean Stalk is her current book of choice before nap/quiet time. She loves the suspense while Jack is hiding in the Giant's oven. I wish I could record her little voice doing the fee fi fo fum part. In her best grumpy voice she says, "Fee fi fo fum! I smell the blood of an Englishmuffin!"
And yesterday, out of the blue, instead of her typical, "I'm not beautiful, I'm #3," response, she came up with this doozey, "I'm not cute, I'm Wallister Jenny." And she stuck with it too. All day she insisted she was Wallister Jenny. Do you know who Wallister Jenny is? I don't.
#3 is a social butterfly. When I take her out with me she is constantly meeting people by asking them frank questions like, What is your name? What are you doing? She mostly meets with friendly responses and people seem pleased to exchange pleasantries with such a little one.
Yesterday we had a close encounter with awkwardness when #3 asked the older man behind us in line at the pharmacy what was wrong with his nose, why did he have bloody on his nose? He had apparently just had some skin cancer removed and his nose was covered in fresh scabs. Fortunately, he was delighted to make conversation with her and he refused my apologies for her forwardness.
And today there was a real encounter with awkwardness.
#3 makes daily observations to the other adults at our bus stop. We are all very friendly by now. But after three months of seeing the same gentleman every single day today she happened to notice that he is black.
"Jimmy, you have earrings? Why do you have earrings? You're not a girl!"
Me: Some boys wear earrings too. Jimmy is wearing boy earrings.
"Oh! I like those boy earrings, Jimmy. I want those earrings too. Hey! You're black!"
Jimmy: Yes I am.
Examining herself, "But I'm white!"
Jimmy: That's ok. White and black. Everyone likes diamond earrings.
me (not knowing what the heck to say): I like diamond earrings.
Why was this awkward? I don't know. It just was.
Have your kids ever put you in an uneasy situation?
3 comments:
I love love love this stage!!!!! They are so stinking cute!! [Even with the awkward comments] :-)
ok ... hilarious! and yes, all the time... in fact just yesterday miss hai walked up to an elderly japanese lady (out of the blue) and said to her in her loudest voice "HOLA!" ahhhhhh KIDS!!!!!!
Um many many many times daily does my #1 do this to me. The most recent was at Walmart where he shouted, "She's got a huge bum!" Yikes. I'm glad to know you #3 is just as outgoing and charming!! :) Miss you!
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