3-year-old wisdom

The other day we were in line at a store, and Eli was staring at the lady behind us.  I had the boys in the cart, and Eli said after noticing the lady had an almost empty cart, “Mom, where are her kids?”  I whispered to Eli, “Some ladies don’t have kids.”  He looked kind of confused.  I said, “Like Aunt Esa, she doesn’t have kids.”  He replied, “Mom!  We’re Esa’s kids!” 

The other morning Eli said to me on the way to daycare, “Mom, why does it take so long to grow up?”  One of the reasons he said he wanted to grow up was because then he could use knives.  Anyway, I started telling Eli all the reasons he should enjoy being a kid.  I said, “You don’t want to grow up too fast.”  He said, “Yes!  Esa said we grow up too fast!”

Tonight, I was changing into my pajamas.  I have put on a few winter pounds, but not to the point where I was self conscious about it.   As I was getting into my sweats, Eli said, “Hey, Mom, you have BIG legs!”  Entirely innocent.  I hope he was just comparing mine to his. :0)