Saturday, September 21, 2013

Thinker :)

I've got quite the little thinker on my hands LOL
A couple things Lailah has said over the past couple days:

Lailah: *hits self in forehead*
Get out of my head ! Get out of my head!
Me: What's wrong?
Lailah: I was just thinking ! I was thinking that I need to go to bed since Mamee is coming to pick me up tomorrow morning. But that would mean going to bed so early ! I do NOT need that in my head !! *laughs*

Lailah: Mommy? How did the first people get here? If we were born because people were born before us... Then how were people born when nobody was born before them? How did the first person get born?

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Playyard troubles. Not Queen of the playground.

Today apparently, a little girl told Lailah that she would be her friend and play with her at recess. And Lailah was under the impression that the little girl would stay with her and only play with her.
But apparently the other little girl didn't mean that and lailah felt lied to.
So she confronted the little girl and told her shes not friends with liars and that she doesn't want to be friends with her because she doesn't need friends like that.
All because the little girl wanted to play on a jungle gym that lailah doesn't feel safe on while Lailah wanted to play with the toys on the bench.
So I asked her if she wanted to be friends with the little girl even after all of that happened.
She responded, "yes, but not if shes going to be that way."
So I asked her how she would feel if she told the little girl she'd play with her but didn't know that the little girl wanted to play on the jungle gym; when she didn't want to, and instead wanted to do something else, then the little girl got upset with her and told her that she won't be her friend.
So I sort of switched the situation around.
She told me it would hurt her feelings.
So I then asked her if she considered the idea she could have hurt the little girls feelings. I explained that it may not feel fair to the little girl that she felt she had to sit and do or play something she didn't want to - something Lailah wanted to do instead.
I asked her if she asked to do what the little girl was doing and she said that she didn't feel safe playing on the jungle gym so she just expected the other little girl to do what SHE wanted to do.
I told her that the little girl probably didn't mean for Lailah to feel she was lying, but she didn't know that Lailah wouldn't want to play on the jungle gym with her. That maybe she felt bored doing what lailah wanted to do only. Just as Lailah would if it were the other way around.
Lailah seemed to have understood and she actually seemed to feel guilty.
So I told her if she wanted to remain friends with the girl that she may want to apologize and tell the little girl that it is okay to play on her own, but that she would like it if the little girl notified her before running off on her because it hurt her feelings and made her feel lied to.
Hopefully she heard me and takes what I had to say into consideration.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Interesting convos today lol

Two interesting convos with Lailah today:
Lailah: Mom, soon we need to stop eating chicken.
Me: Why? Lailah: Because chicken is a bird and it's sad that when we eat them they have to die.
Me: Well, what about pigs and cows and stuff?
Lailah: Yeah, they're animals too and it's not fair that they die and we don't.

Think I may have a Vegetarian in the making. I told her she didn't have to eat them if she didn't want to and that we would find another way, she said she'll think about it.

2nd*coming home from KFC *Thanks- dad for getting us dinner*

Lailah: Mom, when we get home - don't make my plate. Because I don't want to grow up one day and be like, 'Mommy can you get me a plate of food. Or daddy can you make me a plate of food.' Because I'll be grown up, I can get my own food!
Me: I'll remind you of that when you're older.
Lailah: Okay...... *long pause*.... Remind me when I'm in the last grade because that's when I'll be a grown up. Then I'll remember.

3rd*later on in the day

*lailah just opened up a picture of bennett
*made whimpering sounds
Mommy... I wish we could live with Bennett I wish we could.
 *whimpers He looks so cute and I like him.

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Remembering a dream

Lailah: Mom I had a dream.
Me: What was it baby?
Lailah: I dreamed I was with auntie moe and we were in the street and there were like three snappers that would snap and hurt your feet or would just snap and make noise. Then we went in these peoples house and they had two doggies, two cute doggies ! They were so cute! And they forgot them there and you forgot your keys, your wallet, and your phone there. And Mammee forgot her phone there too so I brought it back home. Auntie Moe and I ran !