It’s Addy’s birthday. We had her party last weekend. Because since she has a February birthday, she insists on having the party in February which is hard because her bday (she says bday now) is the last day of the month.
Except for leap year.
And I go Addy! You can have your party on the 29th! It’s a Saturday. And Addy goes “there’s 28 days in February.”
And like an idiot, I explain the phenomenon that is leap year. It’s a stupid thing honestly and you don’t hear it until you have to explain it to an 8 year old. I even showed her the calendar (thanks Caesar!) and she goes “put my party on the 22nd.” Note: I think literally every holiday I have tried to explain to Addision makes me realize how ridiculous they are.
Right so at this point in my parenting journey I’m not winging it it’s more “let’s figure this out together.” Like it’s time to talk about body things so we bought books. They’re learning about fractions in math and she tries to tell me about new math and I still just yell about “just memorize the times table”. She likes to make us laugh so that means a lot of smart ass remarks. She gets it honest so I don’t really push back but I have made sure to tell her that it is my role as a parent to be a hypocrite so sometimes I just say “okay that’s enough smack talking.”
All 8 year olds do is watch YouTube and talk shit.
– Me, Facebook status. Last week.
We took pics this year but I went full photo mom and was very nitpicky and then I quickly gave up but now that I’m a few days removed from the process I mean what really was even the big deal? Is that not a parable for parenting? Who knows. Not me.
The goddamn city is crumbling and the schools have shut down due to a water main bursting – I mean the whole entire school district – so there is no school today on Addy’s birthday. That means I don’t have to schlep cupcakes to school but that does mean that we’re about to ball out in the mall.
So here’s to 9!