Last week, in her usual chattering response to my question "so what did you do at school today?" Annabel confessed that she'd asked C to marry her but he told her "I'm busy playing." So she asked someone else, who just said no.
"Ah," I said. Good to know the boys in her class have their priorities straight.
She also made imaginary pumpkin soup and ate it with crackers (it was "delicious" she said, and was so convincing in her description that I had to ask her teacher if they'd made pumpkin soup for snack), and today when I picked her up she was dressing some dolls. She's been in a major domestic mode lately I guess. And I always hear about her day, her friends and activities and the weather.
I never hear things like this from Otto, so I kind of enjoy the stream of consciousness reporting.
Otto has, though, been curious lately about one of his friends who's an only kid. When we were pregnant with Bel, Otto assumed that every one of his friends would also be getting a younger sibling. And for a lot of his friends that seems to be true, except for one. This morning in the car he commented again that his friend didn't have a little sister. We talked about how families come in all shapes and sizes, went over how many kids are in my family and in Jon's family, etc. He gets it. But I think he just believes everyone should have a little sister, and if they don't, they're missing out.
Either that or he's just jealous that his friend never has to share LEGOs with a younger sibling, or listen to her cry at breakfast if he gets the green bowl and she has to use the white one, or have to read baby books during storytime before bed when he'd rather be reading a Clone Wars story.
He's a good egg, that Otto.
