Things Kids Say

If there's one thing kids do consistently, it's keep you on your toes.  Seriously, you can never predict the ideas they come up with, the things they do, or especially the things that come out of their mouths.   Sometimes it's genius and you wonder what ever happened to that awesome creative reservoir that you must have possessed as a child.  Other times you just want to put a box over your head and stand far enough away that people assume it's someone else's kid.

Lately Zoey has been particularly interested in noting differences in people - i.e. size, shape, skin/hair color, glasses, etc.  It's cool because you get to talk about celebrating all the various ways that people are unique.  But then it can get real awkward real fast.  Like when she shouts "hey mom, that guy has a fake leg!" or  "how come that lady has a mustache?".

Today we were shopping and Zoey decided to loudly point out that every single black person looks like Sunita.   I couldn't decide if I was more mortified, amused, or confused.  I think mostly confused because if you know Sunita (one of my BFFs) she's not even black, she's Asian.

So that lead to a whole conversation about how Sunita is Asian, Zoey got this first thoughtful and then gleeful look on her face and said "Whoooooooa cool!  How did she do that?  I wanna be Asian".  As if Sunita has some kind of Magic Asian Button.  

If that conversation wasn't enough for my brain, later in the day she randomly comes up to me and says "when Daddy goes to heaven, I'll get a new daddy.  Then when Mommy goes to heaven I'll be all out of parents".  What the heck!  She better not be plotting against us.  I am really curious what got her thinking about that.  Dawn mentioned how we've collectively had a couple of cats pass away this year, which was Zoey's introduction to death and Kitty Kat Heaven.  Maybe she's still processing that information, who knows.  Marty was just indignant about the whole thing "oh I see how it is, Daddy kicks the bucket and we just get a new daddy.  But Mommy is the end of the parenting line?".  What can I say, mommies are irreplaceable.  

In other random news, this is what the kids did all day.  Zoey ran around in a monkey suit and a skirt, Finn ran around in a dress: