Our "evolved" family

I called my husband on my way home from work yesterday to let himn know I was on my way and he sounded irritated by something Court had said or done.

"do you know what your daughter just said to me. My mommy should be home soon...you better have her dinner ready"

I proceeded to howl with laughter. Dead silence on the other end.

"It's not funny...why doesn't she say that stuff to you?"

I'm so proud!

Boyfriend...EXCUSE ME!

Yeah, I dropped Court off at school the other day and her teacher told me that Courtney decided that Victor ( a fellow 3-year old ) is her boyfriend. What? Where did she even hear that term? Ummm...ok, maybe I shouldn't let her watch Hannah Montana, but it all seemed pretty harmless at the time. Anyways, her teacher doesn't think it's a big deal because she doesn't seem to know what it even means. That whole day, she just dragged poor Victor around and ordered him to tell everyone he was her boyfriend or she was going to break up with him. While the teacher thinks it's cute, I'm a little worried..for 2 reasons: 1) I don't want my kid to be that precocious, agressive girl that starts calling and chasing boys at like age 7...not going to happen 2) I'm concerned that she thinks the definition of a boyfriend is a boy you can boss around. Ummm...ok, she may have gotten that from watching me and my husband :) The funny thing is that Victor just follows her around and does whatever she says. Maybe I should be proud that she is showing such "leadership" skills at such a young age?



now, does this look like a bossy, high-maintenance diva in training...
ummm...yeah!

Now I lay me down to sleep...

Courtney seems to have found religion lately. Her godparents got her this really great children's bible that she just loves. Every night at bedtime, she asks daddy to read her a "Baby Jesus" story. She listens intently and asks a ton of questions (which I do not know the answer to). I have to admit that there have been a couple of scary stories (Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac was little disturbing to read to her), but she takes it all in stride and says that Jesus is a "superhero"! Yes, he is baby!

After the story, she says her prayer:

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
The angels watch me through the night
and keep me in their blessed sight.

Yay-men!

I said "baby, it's Amen". "I want to say yay-men". Well, ok, then, works for me!