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Five-year-old is awesome:
She's got an idea. Santa/St. Nicholas, she explains, wears a red robe. Death wears a black robe. Death's colors, of course, are red and black. (This year at Halloween I told her and her brother a very softened version of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death", that's where she gets that.) Both watch humanity and appear mysteriously at certain times... therefore... Santa is clearly just Death in disguise. "Santa's coming to my kindergarten, too!" she says, eyes widened in obviously sarcastic excitement, another facial expression I suddenly realize she's picked up from me as I do that exact same thing in response and say, "Ooooh, scary..." "Yeah!" Then, suddenly waving a dismissive hand as she drops the game, "I mean, it's just an idea I have."
Also last week I showed her how to shuffle a deck of cards, and she's been practicing ever since. She can actually do it pretty well now. I feel like that's some pretty decent hand-eye coordination for just-turned-five. Comes in real handy for the two games she knows how to play - UNO and War. :)
I'm making her a little something for dinner in the kitchen, she stands around me and does a pretty good imitation of her brother. Being silly I say, "No, you're Kathi! Can't trick me! Want to know what gave it away?" "I have long hair." "That, yes, and you have light eyes and he has dark." "And my voice is higher." "A little, yeah. And I don't think he'd be too happy to wear that gold glittery ballerina skirt you have on." She giggles, "He wouldn't," then reminds me, "But some boys would, though." I concede her point. "Yeah, some boys would."
She's got an idea. Santa/St. Nicholas, she explains, wears a red robe. Death wears a black robe. Death's colors, of course, are red and black. (This year at Halloween I told her and her brother a very softened version of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death", that's where she gets that.) Both watch humanity and appear mysteriously at certain times... therefore... Santa is clearly just Death in disguise. "Santa's coming to my kindergarten, too!" she says, eyes widened in obviously sarcastic excitement, another facial expression I suddenly realize she's picked up from me as I do that exact same thing in response and say, "Ooooh, scary..." "Yeah!" Then, suddenly waving a dismissive hand as she drops the game, "I mean, it's just an idea I have."
Also last week I showed her how to shuffle a deck of cards, and she's been practicing ever since. She can actually do it pretty well now. I feel like that's some pretty decent hand-eye coordination for just-turned-five. Comes in real handy for the two games she knows how to play - UNO and War. :)
I'm making her a little something for dinner in the kitchen, she stands around me and does a pretty good imitation of her brother. Being silly I say, "No, you're Kathi! Can't trick me! Want to know what gave it away?" "I have long hair." "That, yes, and you have light eyes and he has dark." "And my voice is higher." "A little, yeah. And I don't think he'd be too happy to wear that gold glittery ballerina skirt you have on." She giggles, "He wouldn't," then reminds me, "But some boys would, though." I concede her point. "Yeah, some boys would."