Conversations With a PreSchooler
Overheard at Lucas' MyGym class
Cute, Perky Teacher: "Say your name and what you want to be when you grow up!"
Lucas: "Lucas! And I want to be a grown-up!"
CPT: "Okay, what do you want to do for a job when you are a grown up?!"
L : "I want to go to work!"
CPT: "Okay! When you GO to WORK , what type of job do you want?!"
Lucas: "Ummm...Uuummmm.."
CPT: " What do you want to do you want to be?!"
Lucas: "OH! A STORM TROOPER!!"
Me: "Okay, let's go take a walk down the street. Mommy needs to vote."
Lucas: "What's envoding?"
Me: "Vot-ing. Mommy gets to tell who she thinks should be the next president of the United States of America."
Lucas: "We live there! What is the president?"
Me: "The boss of the United States America. But Mommy still doesn't know who she wants to be boss.. Obama or Clinton.. who do you think? The man or the woman? The mommy or the daddy?"
Lucas: "But I thought that Mommy is always the boss?"
Me: "Good kid, I'm raising you well."
Scene: Yesterday, Mom and Lucas on the couch chilling - him, recovering from the freaking CROUP, me - well, 9 months pregnant and almost unable to move at this point.
Mom: "So, Lucas, when the baby comes Daddy and I were thinking that maybe you would like to school 3 days a week. To run and play with all your friends!"
Lucas: "No Mommy, I want to be home with you and my baby sister."
Mom: "But honey, it may be pretty boring for you.. She's really not going to do anything except eat and sleep, and I think that school will be SO MUCH more fun for you!"
Lucas: "Um, but I think that if I go to school my baby sister will cry."
Mom: "Well, she's going to cry a lot anyway.. remember that babies cry to tell us that they are hungry, tired or need a diaper change.."
Lucas" "No, if I go to school, I think she will cry because she misses her big brother.."
sniff... sniff...