I know that as a parent you are not supposed to attach labels to your kids like "the good one" or "the smart one", but as long as you don't say them out loud (too many times in a 24 hour period) AND you change them up frequently (remember, February 29th comes around "frequently"), I choose not to beat myself up when I take the parental liberty to smack a hypothetical sticky note label right in the hypothetical dead center of one of my children's foreheads. It is always JUST AFTER I make a comment to my husband like, "Christopher is DEFINITELY the athletic one" that the child comes through the back door with a bloody nose, gum stuck to his elbow, and screaming, "THEY SHOULD MAKE IT EASIER TO CHEW GUM WHILE A PERSON IS WALKING!"
Tonight at dinner Courtney made a few ever-so-endearing compliments to her brother and even made a point to say how yummy a truly not so yummy dinner was. After she left the table, I casually (CRITICAL ERROR) made the comment to Mark, "She is DEFINITELY the sweet one." Not more than ten minutes later, her father sat down at the piano with her to help her practice through a new and tricky piece of music when I hear:
Mark: Courtney, start the piece over from the beginning and try to keep a steady
beat this time.
Courtney: I am not in the mood, Dude.
She is DEFINITELY the fresh one.
It is such a shock when she says stuff like that, because she is "usually" the SWEET one. She does have great command of the language for her age. She's going to be dangerous as her vocabulary grows.
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