First Crush

Our daughter's first crush

For the past two weeks Citrus has had a crush on a boy in her preschool.  An older boy, perhaps already five. 

Every night she is excited about the idea of seeing him the next day although her attempts to talk or play with him are usually thwarted.  Sadly for her, he usually plays with the other boys. 

She was excited to learn a few days ago that he said he would marry her but only after he married one or two other classmates first:  Hannah with the straight hair (also known as straight Hannah) and Hana with the curly hair.

On the phone the other day she told her grandmother the great news.  

Mima (Grandma), I already choose my husband!  I already choose Danzel!  I choose Danzel to be my husband today.  But Danzel said he would marry straight Hannah first, then me. 

Yeah, and I like him a lot.  Because he is always looking nice and I always think his hair is beautiful.  Yeah, and he looks nice and it looks to me, Sweet.  And that makes me like shout his name when I want him to play with me when it’s playtime and sit next to me. 

But one day, when I wanted to sit next to him in the Chinese room where the tables are, [another boy] which has green Crocs, he stole my chair.  Yeah.

Just for the record, I will not be the kind of parent who pulls out a video camera when a date comes over to pick her up.  Really.  That happened to me once so my daughter will be spared as tempting as it may be.

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