"Hold your tongue and walk away/ Say it's been a heavenly day"

Here are a couple of short family stories that I found funny:

My mom and I went to visit my brother's family in B'ham for a few days. My newly six year old niece ME was telling us some of the Kindergarten gossip. She told us about a little boy in her class and how he was so "annoying" and "silly" and just went on and on about this kid. After a moment, my mom said, "You know ME, it sounds like you like this boy" to which she replied with an embarrassed smile, "I do" followed by a giggle. Man, it starts young doesn't it?

My niece MG went on a field trip to see a ballet a few days ago. She told me how her class got to meet a girl and boy ballerina (/ballerino?) after the show. I asked if they were still in their costumes when she talked to them and she said no. But then she dropped her voice to a whisper and said "And the boy ballerina, guess what? He had a ponytail. hehehe" Guess other boys in her class aren't following the hair styles of Ryder Robinson and Presley Crawford.

It's a pretty well-known fact that when you spend the night at Gran's house, you have pizza for dinner. Special place equals special treat, I guess. Around three o'clock the doorbell rang and it was an AT&T guy but niece CJ (4) asked "Gran, did you order pizza?" It was seriously like Pavlov's dogs. Well minus the slobber.

And I was talking to niece SD who is turning eight in a few months (even though I've placed numerous calls to the Birthday Police asking for her just to turn seven again. They do exist) about how my birthday was on mother's day this year and SD said "Well that's great! You get to honor your mother and she gets to honor you". Well that's an optimistic attitude.

And today at church, I marched all four girls to go to bathroom because when one has to go, they all have to go (and the peppermints in a basket on the counter are probably enticing as well). As they filed in, a girl (who look a little younger than myself) asked me "Are they all yours?" Guess 23 isn't treating me too well already. Super.