Jun 17, 2020
My dad showed my nephews Fantasia for the first time and one of them drew these amazing pics after. He’s only 5 😮
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My dad showed my nephews Fantasia for the first time and one of them drew these amazing pics after. He’s only 5 😮
Tiny Nephew (5) saw me rummaging around in the fridge after a failed nap.
TN: Auntie... are you awake?
Me: I don’t know, am I? Do I look awake?
TN: I think you look asleep.
Me: Well. You might be right.
More art by my 5 year old nephew. He is freakishly good.
I was at the pool with my nephew and a little girl his age started playing with us. As I was chasing her along one edge of the pool, an older woman stops me and asks what county I live in so she can recommend a good summer reading program for my daughter. For some reason I thought it would sound too weird to explain that I’m not related to the child I’m chasing and just answered honestly but ambiguously.
I actually live in the next county over. No, I haven’t signed her up for a summer reading program. Yes, it sounds like a good idea. Libraries do have so many great resources people don’t take advantage of. I hope you have a nice day too.
A lot of nodding did the heavy lifting in that interaction. She never asked if the girl was my daughter and I felt too awkward explaining when I could technically answer her questions without lying.
I do understand people assuming I’m the mom of whatever small child I’m interacting with, but I might need to get a t-shirt that says “fun aunt” so I can stop fumbling through interactions that make me look like a mom who knows nothing about her kid.
At my grandfather’s 90th birthday party:
Tiny nephew: I want to tell everybody something. *stands up on chair* Everybody!
Everyone turns to look at him
Tiny nephew: Did you drive a long way to get here?
He then proceeds to try to have 10 conversations at once. Later he did something similar but asked everyone if they had tried a cheeseburger before and was amazed that everyone had. I never know what the tiny dude is going to do next.
I may have lost an argument with a little girl at the pool over whether or not I’m a grown up. I’m in my 30’s but she refused to believe I was older than a teenager. In a test of wills over the situation, she won. I admitted I was actually a teenager
Stepbrother: Your Auntie is my sister
Tiny nephew: You’re a sister?
Me: Yep
Tiny nephew: But you’re a person
Me: Yes, I am a person
Tiny nephew: So you’re a sister person?
Me: Yes?
Tiny nephew: *deep in thought*
Not sure what’s going on that he thought sisters and people were mutually exclusive groups, but glad we cleared that up
Stepmom: smile for the photo, tiny nephew!
Me: *makes a silly face to make him smile *
Tiny nephew: *makes silly face back*
Stepmom: why is he doing that?
Me: *totally straight faced* no idea