(Mia flipped the sun visor of my Mitsubishi car and found a sticker with Japanese characters on it. She is a huge fan of Ancient Egypt.)MIA: "Mommy, look! Hieroglyphics!!!"
(After having bought and read a fact book for Mia entitled Ancient Egypt, I give her a short quiz, not expecting a 5-year-old to get anything right.)
MOMMY: "Who was buried inside the Great Pyramid?"
MIA: (huge grin) "King Khufu."
MOMMY: "Wow, you remembered! Okay, next. Describe the crown of Upper Egypt."
MIA: (huge grin again) "Bottle-shaped. And it's white."
MOMMY: "Yes, it's a bottle-shaped white crown. Correct! Now, what is the Great Sphinx?"
MIA: "It has the body of a lion and the head of a human."
(Move over, Indiana Jones!)
(Rule #1: Don't play with the i-touch in the car or you'll destroy your eyes.)
MOMMY: "We have to go buy some groceries at the mall, okay, Mia?"
MIA: "Okay. Can I play i-touch in Parkmall, Mommy?
MOMMY: "Oh no, babe. Not this time."
MIA: "Ughhh. But it's not a moving vehicle!"
(Mia was so amazed watching a song & dance routine on Glee that her jaw dropped. We caught her with her mouth wide open. After a minute...)
MIA: "Can somebody please close my mouth?"
(Mia was complaining in the car about Daddy's teasing the night before.)
MIA: "But Mommy, I don't like it when Daddy follows everything I do."
MOMMY: "He's just teasing you, babe, because he wants to see you laugh."
MIA: "But I really don't like it!"
MOMMY: "You know, you should be glad you have a daddy who loves you and plays with you. Some kids don't even have daddies."
MIA: (long pause, then starts to sob.) "Awww...that's so sweet. I can't take it anymore!"
(I thought she was just being a drama queen, but when I looked at her, big tears were falling down her cheeks!)
(Mia was riding on the grocery shopping cart when she asked me this question.)
MIA: "Mommy, how do we die? Do we kill ourselves?"
