Kyla is starting to point out differences between boys and girls. For example, she tells me that boys don't wear jewelry or make-up or dresses. I have tried to explain, with minimal explanation, that some boys DO actually like to wear earrings or rings or bracelets or make-up, etc. and that some girls actually do not like to wear them.
The other day at Kohl's, she was explaining that boys don't wear jewelry. Then, as chance would have it, our male checker was wearing diamond stud earrings.
Kyla, loudly( toddlers have 2 volumes, loud and LOUDER): Why he wearing earrings?
Me: I guess he likes them. Do you like them?
Kyla: Oh, yah.
Me: Why don't you tell him you like them?
Kyla: Hey. Hey. I love your earrings!
Checker (smiling, perhaps embarrassed): Thanks.
Then this weekend at the airshow, at lunch we sat across from a nice man who struck up a conversation with us. He and Jedd started talking about their airplanes. Kyla tried to interrupt and for some reason I can't explain, I knew she was going to ask an inappropriate question.
Kyla: Hey. Is you a...
- (Mom sense: red alert! red alert!) -
Me: Kyla you need to wait until Daddy is done talking. What do you need?
Kyla: Is her a...
Me (quietly): That is a man.
Kyla (pausing to figure out how to proceed): Why she a man?
