14 days...Out Of The Mouth Of Babes!

Kids are so incredibly frank and honest...

Yesterday we went up to Shediac to see some friends of ours, Bethany's godparents, who have just bought a cottage and are fixing it up. Their little three year old was totally baffled by both my height and my short hair. She kept saying "You the tallest man!" but then staring in puzzlement at my chest, since I was very obviously had bumps there like her Mommy. We finally explained that women could be both tall and have short hair! What a riot!

Today was my godson's birthday party. He is about 4 months younger than my youngest, Bethany, so she always hits a birthday before him. He celebrated the fact that he will soon be 6 (next weekend while they are away) and invited both our girls to his bowling party. It was fairly quiet when we dropped the girls off. My friend, Karen, insisted that Nick and I have some time to ourselves during the party instead of staying to help, so we took her up on that offer and had some quality couple time.

When we went back to pick them up, it was total bedlam! Again, I was swarmed by a bunch of little kids who looked up at both Nick and I and then over at our girls. "Yup! You're right...they are REALLY tall!" one replied to our girls. There must have been some explaining about why Erin and Bethany are so tall for their age.

Kids notice stuff and comment on things without the many layers that we add as adults and I find that more refreshing somehow that adults who just look startled and unsure of what to say other than "Do you play basketball?" Kids delight in something different and share the wonder in it. I can still remember being in line at one of the Harry Potter movies and having a child in line ask me if Hagrid was my Daddy! I just smiled and replied that my daddy WAS very tall, much taller than me, but that he was thinner than Hagrid and not as fuzzy!

I hope I never completely grow up and lose all my sense of wonder... life would be pretty dull. Look how much fun I'm having at the thought of playing dress-up!