Elise tells me she has a boyfriend. I'm pretty sure I don't like the idea of my five year old having a boyfriend. I mean, what is the point when your five? Everyday when I drive by her school to take Steven to preschool, her class is at recess and she is playing on the monkey bars with said boyfriend, Ethan. Literally, everyday without fail. I always tell her that it is nice that she plays with Ethan, but she needs to play with the girls sometimes too. So last week I drove by one day and she was on the monkey bars with Violet, and Ethan was nowhere to be seen. When I picked her up from school I told her I saw her playing with Violet at recess and not Ethan. Her exact words to me were this.
"Well Mom, you know the monkey bars are not actually Ethan's favorite. They are my favorite and I make him watch me go across at recess everyday. But since they are not his favorite I told him today that he could have some free time and play chase with some other kids."
What??? My five year old is "giving her friends freetime?" The good news is that with such bossiness the whole boyfriend thing is not likely to last long. I am sure he will tire of that in no time flat. Hopefully by next year she will be happily playing with the girls at recess again. And yes, we have had a talk about bossing friends about. I'm not sure it will help though. Somehow I wasn't surprised by the conversation because that is just so Elise. She always thinks she is in charge of everything and everyone. I love her to pieces, but I'm just sayin, sometimes I am not really sure where that little girl came from. I think she must be her father's daughter :-).
"Well Mom, you know the monkey bars are not actually Ethan's favorite. They are my favorite and I make him watch me go across at recess everyday. But since they are not his favorite I told him today that he could have some free time and play chase with some other kids."
What??? My five year old is "giving her friends freetime?" The good news is that with such bossiness the whole boyfriend thing is not likely to last long. I am sure he will tire of that in no time flat. Hopefully by next year she will be happily playing with the girls at recess again. And yes, we have had a talk about bossing friends about. I'm not sure it will help though. Somehow I wasn't surprised by the conversation because that is just so Elise. She always thinks she is in charge of everything and everyone. I love her to pieces, but I'm just sayin, sometimes I am not really sure where that little girl came from. I think she must be her father's daughter :-).
The pictures above are from her classes final assembly performance. It was cute. I recorded it but somehow erased it from the camera - darn! In the first picture she was practicing her dance for me at home before we left for school that morning. In the second picture Ethan is standing next to her in a blue shirt and shorts, in case you were wondering what the boy who gets bossed around looks like.
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So cute! I think Fin is going to be that exact same way. Bossy.... But so cute!
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