The Scampering Horse

The Courthouse, better out than in, I always say.   Lady taking her parrot on a walk as one does. That notebook is for note taking at the Denver Aquarium. That face is for adorable. Same notebook, new face. The face of a girl petting sting rays. She loved the two finger petting of the sting rays. Looking face to face at a weird fish. A fish thinking we are the weird ones. The most photogenic of all sea creatures, the jelly fish. Showoffs. Art museum face. We LOVED the art museum so much.

My five year old has her best friend over. They are sitting on the couch across from me and they are pretending like they got married and kissed inside a giant slinky and now they are kind and queen of the jungle. I don't know how to feel about this. They didn't ACTUALLY kiss. But, the two of them did make actual kissing sounds with the grown up lion animals they are using to portray themselves. Now they have a baby. They are deciding whether they want to have one or two babies. My daughter is sure she wants two. Despite the innocence, my stomach is doing flips. These are heavy topics for such little people to be discussing. They are such good parents to their babies, which are small white tigers. I never thought I would have a preschooler with a boyfriend. We have a family policy that boyfriends are for college. But this is the child who has taught me "You know nothing," and "I will do what I want."  She has shown me that life has more possibilities th...