ME: So, Julia? What is this that you drew here?
JULIA: Scissors!
When she's not busy drawing
"Drift upon me my fairy dady.
Drift upon me my fairy momy."
Ethereal, n'est-ce-pas?
Meanwhile, Madeleine has decided that, at least for today, she is a girl.
MADELEINE: (playing with her winter animal figurines) Mommy! I can't find my penguin! And he's the KING!
ME: You can't, huh?
MADELEINE: (wailing) Yeah! I can't find the KING!
ME: Well, maybe you can be the king.
MADELEINE: Well Mama. I can't be the king because I'm a GIRL. A king is ONLY A BOY and I'm NOT a boy. I'm just a GIRL. Girls can only be princesses.
I'm not sure I get it. She can arbitrarily decide that she's a boy when we're driving in the car, but she absolutely cannot call upon her powers of imagination to pretend she's a boy when she's in need of a king?
Aye yie yie. Between Julia's penis drawings, all the naked Barbies, and Madeleine's vacillations between whether or not she has a worm, I honestly have no idea what goes through these kids' heads.
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