So Cool

Do you ever come to the realization that your kids are so much cooler than you? And they're not even trying - but I guess that's mostly what makes them so cool. Sophia, for instance, is so carefree that she'll dance whenever there's a good beat to dance to. She doesn't look around to see who's watching her, she just hears the music and starts to sway, clap, and boogie. Mama's there taking pictures of her while she's doing it, who cares? We're in church and there are 100 people laughing at her while she shakes her booty, so what? I absolutely love this about kids.

It's other things, too, though. Not just the dancing. It's also the fact that when she's tired of something she'll announce, "All done." Whether it's that we're giving her too many kisses, playing a game that's getting too boring, or being held by someone she's a bit wary of - "All done." It's as simple as that. She doesn't even worry about awkwardness. SO cool.


The other day she just about broke my heart. My dad was over visiting and for some reason was eating later than the rest of us. He was on the couch with his plate in his lap when Sophia noticed him there and moseyed on over and climbed up on the couch next to him. She kept him company while he ate (pointing out all of the "apples"* on his plate and such) almost like she was doing it just to be nice. But she wasn't. She was doing it because she loves her Grandpa, and that's pretty cool, too. That's the kind of "cool" I hope she stays.

* On a side note, Sophia calls almost any piece of produce "apple". At first I thought she was so smart because she could point out the apples at the grocery store, but then we saw the oranges, and they were "apples", too, and yams - "apples", the list goes on.