Five Year Olds Are Literal Aren't They?

Ballet Class

WE'RE BACK!!! The summer has been getting the best of us, well me.  The Deux are busy with cheerleading, gymnastics, ballet, tap, sports training, and their regular speech therapy.  They are loving it but I have to admit, momma's a bit worn out and we have a full month to go!  Anywho, enough of my whining and let me get you updated on the Deux. 

The Deux are almost two months into being 5 and the development of their distinct personalities continues to amaze me!  One thing that has become painfully apparent (when I say pain, I mean the pain from laughing too hard) is that 5 year olds are really literal.  Let me provide you with a couple of examples.

Gymnastics

Kennedi has taken to pushing Kylie's buttons more and more.  Kylie usually winds up crying and complaining to mommy or daddy.  This one particular morning, I overheard Kylie crying while trying to express to daddy what Kennedi had said to her.  Daddy asks the question that I have asked on more occasions than I can count and that question is why does she listen to Kennedi?  I hear a pause and then Kylie in the whiniest voice possible exclaims, "I can't help it because my ears are open!" Thank goodness I wasn't in the same room as the damage from holding in my laugh would have been major.

Now this next instance will require me to tell on myself, but I guess I owe you for being away for so long.  I am riding along in the car with the Deux.  Let's just say that an odor "appeared" in the car.  We drive along a little further and the same "appearance" occurs.  All of a sudden Kennedi asks, "Mommy are you passing gas?"  I fess up and explain that I don't now why I'm full of  gas today.  Everything is quiet for a moment. We continue to drive along, singing our favorite Dora song and all of a sudden Kennedi stops and asks, "Mommy did you get too much gas at the gas station?" Totally thrown off, I ask her what she's talking about.  Kennedi explains, "You said you were full of gas...like gas from the gas station right?" Ahhhh, those five year olds sure are literal aren't they?

They Deux Tickle My Funny Bone!

Not a day goes by where at some point the girls do or say something to tickle my funny bone.  Sometimes, they will say little things that will make me chuckle like asking if we are going to the "piggy bank" when I say we are going to Chase.  Other time they will say things that make me pause and wonder where in the world they came from!?!

Today was one of those times.  We were in the back yard, watering our garden and hosing down their house and jeep. Kylie goes and sits down in a chair off to the side and seems to have a pensive look on her face.  I asked her if she was okay and although she said she was fine, I got the feeling that something might be bothering her.  I put the hose down, walk over to her chair and engage her by asking her name.  Kylie responds, "I'm the new girl."  I ask her, "Do you have a name?" Kylie looks at me and begins her story. "I am a new girl from Africa." "I just got off the airplane so nobody knows my name yet, okay?"

As I'm standing there wondering where in the world this was coming from, she yells across the yard and calls her sister.  Foolishly thinking I would trip her up, I say, "New girl, how do you know Kennedi's name if you just got off a plane from Africa?"  I'm standing there grinning because I've got her now.  "Kennedi, that is your name right?" "That's what I heard that man over there (pointing at daddy) call you right?" "I'm a new girl from Africa and I just got off the airplane." "My name is Kylie, okay?"  She then looks up at me and grins, leaving me shaking my head, funny bone tickled, and wondering, WHERE DID THAT/SHE COME FROM???