Wednesday, May 9, 2012

What She'll Be

It was cold tea.

Thank goodness it was cold and not hot.

I’m not sure if I could deal with hot tea on such a sweltering day. It was in the high 80s and my jeans were already starting to stick to my legs. Really, I should have worn shorts. But I hadn’t shaved in a couple of days and I could just SEE a preschooler running up to me, pointing, and saying, “What’s growing on your knees?”

I was at my daughter’s tea party at school. Before the tea, the teacher called on them one by one and they announced what they wanted to be when they grew up. One little boy said he wanted to be a Daddy. Heart. Melting.

Then it got to Natalie. I should have known what Natalie wanted to be.



Yup. (Oh, and that green blob is Pascal. I asked. She was offended that I even had to ask. “It’s PAS-CAL!” she breathed. I was half surprised she didn’t add, “Duh.”)

She truly believes she’s going to be Rapunzel when she’s older. It’s why I’m not allowed to cut her hair. Ever. She’s never had a hair cut. If I say I want to get the ends neatened up she’ll clamp her hands over her head and start to cry. “You can’t! It’s magic! YOU’LL RUIN IT!”

It’s still cute though. At least she didn’t say she wanted to be an inanimate object like a shovel or a bucket.

Then it came time for the (cold!) tea. Hot tea probably wouldn’t have been a good mix with a bunch of four and five years olds anyway. Someone would inevitably spill, cry, and possibly throw something.

And the tea was SWEET tea. Even better. I love sweet tea.

So does Natalie:



I can’t wait to show Natalie her Rapunzel picture when she’s older. I’ll be like, “Remember when you were going to be Rapunzel when you grew up?...”

And then she’ll probably go, “I was FIVE when I drew that. Duh.”

24 comments:

  1. Truly adorable!! Nothing beats quality tea time with your babe:)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Oh she'll definitely DUH you all right....twenty bucks says by then she'll add the eye-roll for free.

    ReplyDelete
  3. I want to steal your kids for the weekend and hang with them b/c I think it would be a pure comedy show the entire trip!

    ReplyDelete
  4. She is too stinkin' cute! Love her picture.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Shameless plug - you'll have to let me know when she is (well, maybe when you are!) ready to meet Rapunzel - I'd love to help you plan a trip :-) I had a friend who went to Disney and her daughter dressed as Rapunzel - she even brought a small frying pan for her to autograph!

    ReplyDelete
  6. My daughter is OBSESSED with Rapunzel...she's going to be Rapunzel when she grows up too & we are now letting her hair grow out too, although, she's a brunette. Ugh, and sticky sweet tea...on jeans. Ick.

    ReplyDelete
  7. So sweet that she wants to be Rapunzel when she grows up! Swseet tea is my favorite too...

    ReplyDelete
  8. This post made me smile :) I hope you are still blogging somewhere somehow when she turns 15!!!

    ReplyDelete
  9. My daughter was convinced she was Ariel until she was about 10. Now she's 27 and planning her wedding and she's still a princess (but in a good way, not a bridezilla way!).

    ReplyDelete
  10. My daughter was not letting me cut her hair to be Rapunzel either - Finally about a week ago I told her - haircut or shaving your head. She SCREAMS when I brush her hair and I had had enough. :( Bad Mommy. We took off five inches and it is still beyond her shoulders.

    ReplyDelete
  11. Go ahead and let her hair gorw longer and longer as long as she lets you comb it and put it in braids or ponytail.

    ReplyDelete
  12. My six year old also wants to be Rapunzel. With you on not allowed to cut the hair. ;)

    ReplyDelete
  13. I fully expect her to grow up and be Rapunzel. How could she possibly be anything else?!

    ReplyDelete
  14. I really could see her growing up to be Rapunzel and everyone being like oh wow you really are Rapunzel....I want magical hair!

    ReplyDelete
  15. I'd like to be a princess when I grow up too. and I never shave my legs. well hardly ever :)

    ReplyDelete
  16. Love it!

    Bella won't let me cut her hair either! She doesn't think she's Rapunzel, but she's just very, very vain about her hair! If it were shorter, it would be super curly, which is cuter, but she'd have a uber meltdown just talking about cutting her hair. KIDS!

    ReplyDelete
  17. Thank heaven for small blessings. Your daughter will be Rapunzel? Beautiful. She could be wanting to be a Kardashian. That would be cause for concern.

    Cute, cute blog. I look forward to it every day.

    Blessings

    ReplyDelete
  18. ADORABLE! My kid wants to be Cinderella when she grows up so.. yeah. I get it.

    ReplyDelete
  19. That is the sweetest picture. Definitely a keepsake for sure.

    ReplyDelete
  20. This is how I found your blog by looking up googling "tea party" trying to find a cool cartoonish picture for Facebook. Couldn't find it. Today is my daughter's tea party at her school. Can't wait. But I already know what my daughter wants to be - nurse. Few weeks ago it was in the paper when the News came around to all of the schools asking the kids what they wanted to be when they grow up. Some kids said to be a daddy or mommy or model and stuff. My daughter does the great one - to be a nurse. Why does she want to be a nurse? Because it would be cool to give shots to sick people. Yeah, my daughter is going to be that mean old nurse with the big ol' needle and says "bend over".

    ReplyDelete
  21. I teared up a little. Maybe it's my crazy hormones this week. Or it could be that my little baby girl is making the move from Elementary School to Middle School this month. I long for the days when she wanted to be Tinker Bell. They really do grow too fast. I'm not even going to think about my High school senior who is graduating 19 days. :(

    ReplyDelete

Thanks for the comment!

Share This

 
Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...