Princess Brooklyn - 3y + 4m

Princess Brooklyn,

You are starting to freak me out a bit now. Could you just stop growing, learning and getting all independant on me please? I can not imagine a more enjoyable, hilarious, infuriating and perfect age. You can have conversations about most things and your view of the world is just delightfully simple.

Racial Integration and Assimilation.
Me" Brooklyn, don't say dance (daence) say dance (darnce)"
Brooklyn "But we say daence"
Me "But we are from NZ so we say darnce"
Brooklyn "Well, we are in Australia now"

The Theory of Relatively
Brooklyn "Nico is tiny. And Tyson. And Bailey. And Sam is teeny tiny"
Me "Do you know the opposite of tiny is huge?"
B "Yeah, like dad, he is huge. I am half size of his huge. "
Me "Yes, you are half his size. And I am middle sized"
B "Yeah, you are short"

Don't be Sentimental
Brooklyn "I think that truck did crash into that car"

Me "Yeah, we don't want our car to crash do we?"

B "Noooo!!"

Me "I had a car crash once when I was younger, but it was just a little one like a bump"

B "Did you? Where?"

Me "In New Zealand when I was 20"
B "Well, you don't need to worry about that when we go there to New Zealand."

Being Tactful
(Cuddles in the middle of the night during a storm, you were a little scared, I was lonely with dad away and thought we would both like it if I fell asleep there)
"I love you Princess"
"Me too Mama. But you can go to your bed now"

You started swimming lessons again, for the first time in a year, two weeks ago. You ge to go in by yourself now and I sit in the wating room behind glass. I was a bit worried that when the teacher wasn't focussed on you, you would just be splashing around not knowing that you were meant to continue doing whatever it is. I was also worried that because your friend Riley is in the class too, you would be a distraction to eachother. You were PERFECT. You held on when you were meant to, you kept kicking/ floating/ lying back while the teacher was working with the other kids. You listened and most importantly, you had a fantastic time.


Swimming lesson. Fisrt one alone



Dad has been taking you to dancing every Saturday morning because I have been working. There was an open day last week which was my first Saturday off so I got to watch which was great. None of you can star jump properly and you sound like a herd of elephants as you all do "Butterflies" across the room. The tap dance part of the lesson was Nico's favourite because it was so clunky. I can not wait til the end of year concert.

 

It is school holidays coming up so swimming and dance will be finished for a few weeks as well as Nico's group. I am looking forward to catching up with your friends as the schedule opens up.

Hey Brooklyn, guess what?

I love you

Mama