I’ve got a ladies man on my hands……
So, here’s a little conversation I had with Silas today. It happened after I picked him up from nursery after church today. The worker had told me he had been holding hands with a little girl while they were reading a book together. So, I sat down with Silas to ask him a few questions and this is what he said
me:”So, Silas, did you play with you friend today?”
Silas: “Um, yeah, we read books, uh huh.”
Me: “did you hold her hand?”
Silas: “Um yeah, I hold her hand, and we read books.”
Me: “Silas, why did you hold her hand?”
Silas:”um, ’cause she’s my best friend, mom.”
there’s a slight pause.
Silas: “isn’t that wonderful?”
Later on we were at my parents house and I wanted Silas to repeat what he had said to me, to my mom, cause I thought it was pretty cute, and he proceeded to tell me a little more….
Silas: “Yeah, I held her hand, And I kissed her.”
Me: “What? Did you kiss her, or did you WANT to kiss her?”
Silas:”Um I want to kiss her.”
Me:”So , you didn’t kiss her?”
Silas: “Yeah, I kissed her.”
Me :”Um, Silas, You can’t kiss your friends. That’s not respectful or nice to your friends. You have to wait til you’re as big as dad before you kiss girls.”
Silas :”But I want to, I want to get married. I am big. She’s my best friend.”
Olivia:”Silas, you can’t kiss until your sixteen!”
Me: “NO, not sixteen!”
Olivia :”Oh eighteen.”
Me :”No, Your want to try not to kiss until you’ve found the person that you want to marry.”
Silas :”OK 
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I’m not sure if I handled this one the best way possible, but no matter what, I know Jeremiah and I have a lot on our hands as these kids get older. Lord help me. Yeah, how are the ladies going to resist this kid?
He learns from the best!
yeah, your tellin me.
He obviously had a willing “partner in crime”! Misaki is the kisser in our family. She started first grade this year and all of the kids in the neighborhood walk to and from school together two by two holding hands. One of the other neighbor moms told me that one day as Misaki got to our house, she kissed the hand of the boy she was holding hands with as they parted. He was so excited that he rushed home and told his mom all about while holding his hand up in the air so nobody could touch it. At least the other mom wasn’t upset about it. Sheesh!
Sarah, that’s hilarious. What the heck do you do though. He’s been pretending his stuffed animals are he and this girl and saying that they’re kissing and holding hands. He’s three for cryin out loud. I know it’s innocent, but I want him to get back into ninja turtles and batman again, and forget about girls!
My advice would be not to make a big deal about it. He’ll move past it to something else soon enough. You could try giving him a “no kissing” reminder before he sees this girl, though!
Here’s how a conversation with Felicity went while I was doing her hair for school the other day:
Felicity (out of the blue): I kissed Braiden. At school.
me (with a comb in my mouth): oh really? how come?
Felicity: because he wants to marry me.
me: oh really?
Felicity: No, he doesn’t. But we’re friends.
me: Well, that’s very nice that you’re friends, but remember that we save our kisses for our family and wait until we’re big to kiss anyone else?
Felicity: Oh right. I forgot. Sorry!
We then resumed our conversation about prinesses. However, for the rest of the day all I could think was that if there were such a thing as karma, this would be it for every time I snuck out of TREK and went to the cliffs across from the church to make out with a boy. I’M SORRY!!