In her world

“My angry face!” she says. She’s so me here – just check out her double chin. Sigh.

Missy’s sentence structures are getting more sophisticated these days. She is in full command of conjunctions, much to our amusement. While the huddy and I were contemplating whether to send her to my in-laws for half a day, she bursted out, “No, you must bring me along, otherwise I will get very angry!” And with that, she locked arms with me to cafes and bookstores in the quietest of lanes on a lazy Sunday.

Then at the bookstore, she found her Laura Ashley pouch where I kept her extra set of clothes. Swinging it chicly over her shoulder, she said, “Mommy, I’m going home first. I’ll wait for my car to come, then I’ll go home and eat one sweet. Then I’ll come back and look for you, ok? My car is not here yet. When my car is here, I’ll go home first. I will only eat one sweet. One sweet.” Now, we don’t have a car. What car?

Before leaving the bookstore, she grabbed a few postcards and announced to everyone present, “I’m taking these papers for my students. I want to give them to my students.” She has no students, I have. But in her own make-believe world, she has. She says she has five classes, and she has ‘finished grading all five classes’. “Have you finished grading, Mommy? I have.”

I love love love her at this stage, in this age.