Just in case you forgot--Inwe is 4 11/12ths, exactly, today.
She informed me tonight that she has a boyfriend. His name is Huor (elf name, okay?). He is in first grade and will be six this month.
"It just happened today, Mommy. Everyone knows that he likes me. He likes me a lot." She said this with such nonchalance. I was glad that Phill wasn't with me. I think he would have made some overly dramatic statement.
I somehow controlled my reaction, which was a mental "Oh, crap", and kept asking her questions about Huor. Her answers to my questions were comforting.
He is nice. He is polite. He says hello to her every time that he sees her. He likes to be around her when the kindergarten and first and second graders share the playground. He tells her that she is very pretty. He likes it when she wears pink or green.
Inwe likes it when Huor wears red. She likes him because he has the same color eyes and hair as her. She added, unprompted, that he does not hit or push her. She likes him more than any other boy she's ever known.
Oh, crap. I thought I had more time before this type of thing started. I didn't have a boyfriend until I was eight.
Oh, crap.
4 comments:
Ah, young love. Isn't it wonderful! And it will be okay - I had boyfriends in kindergarten too. Didn't amount to anything, ever.
I had TONS of boyfriends in kindergarten and first grade. Well, really, right up until 6th grade when some of the girls actually started dating for real (un-be-lievable!) That seems to have been the end of it for me. Sigh. What I'd give for a polite boy who looks good in red.
I had a boyfriend in kindergarten by the name of Frank...what a name for a 5 yr old! Anyhow, ole Frank had been put back so he was a bit older than us....never amounted to anything, we didn't even pretend kiss! I did kiss RW in 1st grade, in one of those big sewer pipes on the play ground, we went steady on and off throughout elem school and then even had a short tryst in high school...wonder what happened to him. My first date was in 3rd grade though, his name was RW...we went to the races and he got sick and fell asleep on his mom's lap, I felt like a dope! :-)
Not RW...RM!
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