Discussing the things kids do and say - here's another beauty...
For our family it's an oldie, relating back to a bygone time when the Big Girl was an only child and I was still relatively new to the role of Wicked Stepmother.
I've got it downpat these days.
While visiting a little-known Great-Grandmother the Big Girl had been warned to be on her very best behaviour and had, on the whole, been angelic, if slightly saccharine, for the entire visit.
On the morning of Grammy’s birthday – the purpose of the visit – Big Girl met her Great-Grandmother in the sunshiney kitchen for breakfast, where about a dozen cousins, nieces, nephews and grown-up siblings were gathered for coffee and cereal (as applicable to varied ages).
With all the perkiness of a Pears Soap advert Big Girl stood on tippy-toe in the middle of the kitchen to plant a kiss on her Great-Grandmother’s cheek.
Then, with Shirley Temple-like enunciation and projection, declared “why Grammy – you forget to shave this morning”.
An entire herd of snickering family-members thank God to this day that Grammy was too deaf and too morning-muddled to realise exactly what our darling Big Girl had announced to the entire clan.
She still comments to this day on what a delightful child the precocious little princess is.
Proof that love might be blind, but it's better if it's deaf.
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