Miss B for President!

Miss B had an assigment to present last week in celebration of President's Day. The teacher had asked the students to dress up like the president and share with the class few facts about their president of choice.

Without even forcing any agenda, I asked B if she knew which president she was going to speak about. Without any doubt in her voice she said: "I'm going to speak about President Obama". When I questioned why she had chosen him she said that he was a good president.

She further informed me she did not want to dress as a boy.  I told her to then dress like a  female President, to which she asked me: "Can girls be president?" I explained that of course we could and that in fact Brasil had a girl president. She then goes on and asks me: "Is she a fairy too?" I laughed so hard about the innocence of the question itself  but mostly because Dilma Husseff is no fairy! Much closer to a witch, I'd say, frankly... I contained myself and just told her: "No, not even close!". My fellow Brazilian friends will agree with me.

I almost told her she should dress like Hillary Clinton, our future first female president but I don't think the teacher would appreciate and I did not want to jinx it either!

Couple days later, I sat down with her by the computer to start researching and showed her how to Google. In the midst of my researches she jumps and says: "I'm going to grab some papers to take notes, because Scientist do takes notes and I am a kid Scientist, right, Mommy?"

When she returned she wrote down that the facts and was ready to present.

The day of the presentation arrived. She of course had no problem in presenting and when the teacher asked who she was dressed like, she said she was dressed like the first lady, Obama's wife! She said the teacher laughed and said she was funny.

That's my girl!

Of Love and Little Girls - An Update

Back in April last year I wrote about Miss B's "love" adventures. She has been very girly since then and is always hanging out with the girls. She has continued to be  the social butterfly she is.  For example, when we go to school events (like the McDonald's night) girls and boys come to say hi to her and she hugs everyone. But in all this time since Primrose she has not been talking about any boy in particular.

More recently, however, that changed. She again became infantuated with a boy from her school that she's known since Kindergarten and is now in her class.

The first or second week of school she came to me and said: "Mommy, when I grow up I  want to marry Chase". When I asked her why, she answered with an unusually shy tone, almost blushing: "because I really like him" . Then I asked her what it was about him that made her like him so much. She said that he was nice with her and that back in Kindergarten he had helped her to tie her shoe laces when she at the time did not know how to tie  them and had taught her as well how to tie them. A six-year old boy that stops to help  a girl to tie her shoes, what a rare species and a gentleman he is! Even I was in love with him! Little did I know that I knew his mom well and that he was a cutie, all in all, a substantial upgrade from some of  her pre-school crushes!

Just this weekend I found out that it is likely that Chase's family will move to Clearwater and, therefore, he will need to leave school. I casually mentioned to Miss B  last night. I did not expect such a reaction! She began sobbing loudly, very sad and kept saying: "I'm never going to see Chase again". "He's my best friend ever!" I tried  in vain to comfort her  so ended up saying that maybe I was wrong and he was not moving after all, since she had gotten so upset!

No doubt she is a drama queen, but I thought it was heartfelt, poor thing!  If  things haven't changed for her since pre-school,  this infatuation won't last long and soon enough another one will come. Neeeeext!