I picked up Little Miss Adventure (LMA) from school on Friday and, while we were driving, we got on the subject of love and marriage and I don't even know what.
LMA: When I grow up, I'm going to marry two girls! I mean, two boys!
Me: You can marry a girl if you want to.
LMA: That's silly.
Me: Girls can marry girls and boys can marry boys. I have friends in Chicago who are both girls and they love each other and they are getting married and my old roommates, who are both boys were recently, married, too!
LMA: When I grow up, I'm going to marry a house!
Me: You've lived in Idaho too long.
I've come to the conclusion that politicians and people who argue that "next people will want to marry animals or inanimate objects" or whatever are obviously getting their logic from first graders. And I figured I should save the polygamy talk for another day.
LMA has a reading assignment for the month of November. For every 15 minutes she reads or someone reads to her, she gets to color in a turkey on a piece of paper. I was reading her a story called, "Yuck! That's Not a Monster!" In the story, a super cute little pink monster is born to some monster parents. The pink monster is a he in the story. We've been working on not correcting adults in our house and LMA corrected me when I was reading the story. Mr. Adventure sent her to the corner and talked to her again about correcting adults and asked which of us is the better reader and so on.
She said it looked like a girl to her, which sparked a conversation in our house about gender and how boys can wear pink and girls can wear blue and liking a certain color doesn't mean that you are not a boy or girl or whatever. Then she said that gay people wear pink, which spawned a whole other conversation about how liking certain colors is not indicative of sexual preference and blah blah blah.
Basically, we all learned a lot this weekend. Hopefully some of what we were saying stuck with the Little Miss.
In Hamburglar news...
He's in the fussy phase of Wonder Week mental leap 9 and he's teething and crying a ton and getting into EVERYTHING. I think I like him better when he wasn't mobile.
Not really, but I'm really glad to be at work today.
He and I went on a downtown adventure on Saturday and went to the different shops and bookstores and visited all of our favorite downtown people and got some coffee and a new wooden toy. Then we went to a puppet show at the Library! Then home for a nap. It was fun.
He and I also got some new socks, since Owen keeps eating them all.
And that's about it.
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