The last of the
boys' spring birthdays was this week with my E turning 9 on Tuesday. Here are
some of my favorite E-moments from over the years:
1. Him (age 4.5):
Mommy, did you play sports in high school?
Me: No, but I was
in shows.
Him: Oh, you
weren't too sportable?
Me (suppressing
laughter): No, not too sportable.
Him: Well I am very
sportific.
2. (Age 5) He likes
to approach doors that he knows open automatically and extend his arms and
declare "FORCE OF THE POWER!" to make them open by his magic.
3. (Age 6)
"Some people at school say I'm a girl if I wear nail polish."
Thus beginning
(another) discussion on this topic, which concluded with him saying:
"Yeah! And what if people said that only boys could clean house? That's not
true! And what if people said only girls could...fix a roof? That's not
true!"
(same
discussion, age 8: "If anyone at school says anything about my nail
polish, Ill just say, "no offense but that's just how I rock my
style" )
4. (First lost
tooth on last day of kindergarten) Before bed he said to me, "I know the
tooth fairy is not real. It's just a person in a costume."
"But E . . .
we lock the door at night when we're sleeping, how could that person get
in?"
"We lock the
door?"
"Yes"
His jaw dropped,
literally. "Don't lock the door!!!!"
5. (Age 6) Second
(!!!) phone call from a girl. I told my oldest to go eavesdrop and see
what they were talking about. She returned and said, "I went over there
and he was saying, "your DOG says HI??" After five minutes he got off
the phone so I asked, "So what did she want, just to chit chat?"
He answered,
"We talked about the Super Bowl mostly."
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