My daughter loves to draw. It’s her favorite activity, and she can spend hours at it. Her output alone might be responsible for about 3 square miles of clearcut forest somewhere in the Northeast. (Note to self: donate to the Arbor Day Foundation. Donate a lot.)
Piles of her drawings tend to accumulate, so when she’s not looking, I have to go through them and throw most of them out file them away.
One day I came across this one. I thought, “Huh.” (I did.) I turned it this way. Furrowed my brow (because I’m old enough to be a person who furrows one’s brow). And turned it that way. But for the life of me and all that’s holy, the only thing I could come up with re: What the hell? was that The Girl had drawn a picture of herself…
pole dancing.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Except that, you know, she’s only 6. That, and her father and I would drag her out of there before the tassels made their first full revolution.
I suppose I should have been happy that she seemed to be wearing a dress from Little House on the Prairie. Guess I was distracted by the fact that whatever she’s doing is boisterous enough to send her eyebrows flying above her head.
So I asked The Girl, “Um, honey, what’s this a picture of?” (Clearly, too upset not to end the sentence in a preposition.)
You can imagine my immense relief when she answered, “Oh, yeah, that’s me. Climbing the rope in P.E.”
Ohhhhhh…
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Mommy is a perv honey, don’t worry….
Sick, sick, sick….
LOL! Whew! Like Chris Rock says “your only mission in life as a parent is to keep yo’ baby off the pole!”
lawsa! and you know, my first thought was that you’ve really taken this gambling/vegas lifestyle too far.
but what do i know? i’m just a simple girl from the south.
i’ve got my playroom lined with my kids drawings, i love the explanations best.
I am a little worried about climbing the rope in PE with her little prairie DRESS.
HRH, the funny thing is, I could count on one hand the times she’s worn a dress to school.
you mean they don’t teach pole dancing in P.E. at your school? have you considered a transfer?
How funny!! I love this post – adorable!! She’s a little cutie – don’t you just love 6 year olds? Have a good evening – Kellan
phew.
had me worried there, she did.
heh.
Oh that’s funny. They’re so cute and innocent and we come along and ruin it for them.
BWAHAHAHAHA! First visit to your blog for me and I’m DYIN! Too, too funny!!!
Tears. Pouring down my face. This was awesome….