Big Sister

On Sunday morning, Mae, Whitaker and I were at the park with a couple of my mom friends and their kids. Mae had to have done, hands down, the cutest thing EVER, ever.


Let me set the scene. Underneath the slides of the play structure, there are two hammock plastic like seat-esque things. After being at the park for 30 minutes, Mae joined five or so kids hanging out on the seats. Kate, my friend, commented how Mae was "holding her own" with these bigger kids. Eventually all the kids left except for an eight year old girl, giving Mae the opportunity to have one of the seats to herself. The eight year girl who had command of one of the seats held her perch.

The eight year old started repeating over and over "no babies allowed" in reference to the seat she was sitting on. And also in reference to Mae. The girl would get off the seat to taunt Mae. Mae would take the bait and try to get on it. The girl would then run to it before Mae could sit down and say rudely, "no babies allowed." (I feel that I can use the word rudely here since she also told Mae "to scram" at one point). As I watched from about 10 feet away, I didn't know if Mae really knew what the girl was trying to say to her about her being a baby but Mae would repeat, "no babies," when the girl said it.


After a dozen or so of times of this happening, I don't know what changed but all of sudden Mae emphatically told the girl, while pointing to herself, "big sister." My heart swelled at this moment from pride that this was my daughter. She was letting the girl know that she was NOT a baby but a big sister and allowed to sit on the play structure.

Again, cutest thing EVER, ever, ever.