The Mind of 5 year old Little Girl

My daughter is 5 years old.  Although she just recently turned 5, she is very wise beyond her years.  She is probably the only 5 year old I know that I can have an adult like conversation with.  She's always been like that.  She is also very perceptive and has pretty good reasoning skills.

I often feel bad because she is so "wise beyond her years" that my husband and I forget that she is only 5.  We find we expect a lot out of her and we continuously find that we have to reign ourselves in a bit.

Last night we went to the Mall as a family, just to get out of the house.  It was raining out and our weather has been less then pleasant lately either too hot or rain.  Plus my son has been sick for over a week which sort of makes us homebound outside of doctor appointments.

My daughter will be starting school in less than two weeks, I was lamenting to my husband how I was going to miss my daughter when school starts.  Honestly, these days I'd rather she be home with me and my son was going off to school.  He's been a little monster lately.  I say that lovingly but I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I need a break from him from time to time.  This age of 3 is just too much for me these days!  

Any-Hoo - I said to my husband as we were walking through the mall that when my daughter went to school I wanted to be able to steal away with our daughter on a Saturday to have fun girl time.  She overheard this conversation and says .........

"Yeah, like we can go and get my ears pierced, our fingernails and toes done...." 

I loved how she was so slick to sneak the "ears pierced" in her "todo" list.  

I looked at her and laughed and said, now I know your "M.O." - get me to say a global yes to the list of things and sneak in that "ears pierced" when I least expect it and you'll be able to come back to me and say, "....But Mom, you said yes, remember when we were at the mall and we were talking about having a girls day....blahh blahhh blahh".

I did not raise me a dummy here, I have to watch that she doesn't pull a fast one over me!

I love though that she's thinking outside the box!  Will serve her well when she is an adult, but not so well being my little girl!

Love you Norah!