Today Brianna announced: "I love Pete."
Pete is a boy in Ben's class at school. He lives in our neighborhood, and we've had him over a couple of times. This announcement would have come as a total shock, except that for at least the last month, she's been easing us into the idea.
Several times a day, she talks about Pete. She asks where Pete is. She calls every blonde-haired 4 to 7 year old "my Pete". Often when we get into the car, she wants to "see Pete's house". And, at Ben's class Christmas party, she followed him around, continually patting him on the arm, and saying, "Hi, Pete."
I didn't even know that 2 1/2 year olds were capable of crushes! I'm not sure what she sees in him. I mean, he is a really cute kid. But he's also a six year old boy; which means that he's obsessed with poo, farts, burping, boogers, etc. I know, because I live with a 6 year old boy.
Ben keeps telling everyong that Brianna thinks Pete is "hot." I don't know where he heard that, but I don't think it's helping the situation.
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Speaking of farts . . . (By the way, my family wasn't allowed to say that word when I was growing up, but Ben has somehow persisted in it's usage since starting school.)
Brianna learned the word "fart" from her brother. At our family Christmas party at my parents house (you know, the one where we weren't allowed to utter that word), Brianna recieved a great deal of attention from her boy cousins, ages 6 to about 10, as she announced over and over, "I farted." Each time she said it, she would bust up laughing, and so would all of them.
For days and weeks afterward, she kept telling us, "I say, 'I farted' at the party." And she would just grin from ear to ear. Apparently she was the life of the party for those boys, and she enjoyed being so.
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On Friday, Brianna put her toothbrush and toothpaste in a baggie and came to me and said, "Go a trip." When I told her, "No, we're not going on any trips." She said, "Party?" I think the holidays have been to her liking. All of the trips, to see family, and all of the parties have been right up her alley. Or, maybe she just wanted to try out her popular "I farted" joke again.
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If Brianna is awake when James gets home, she always goes with him when he goes to change his clothes. She always picks out, and insists he wear a "Buckeye" shirt. If he takes too long to go change his clothes, she'll go to his closet and bring out a "Buckeye" shirt for him to wear, and tell him to go change.
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And, for a look at what happens when mommy is really into a book, and not really paying attention to what her kids are up to take a look:
Can you tell what's on their heads?
Yup. They're pull-up diapers. . . . At least they were clean ones.
Don't be fooled. She may look innocent, but that would be dry erase marker under her eyes.
It's really hard to get mad at that face.
