Boyfriends...

The girls spent Saturday evening with their boyfriend Landyn at ChuckECheese celebrating his birthday. Originally it was only Emily's name on the invitation, but when I ran into his family at school (they were having his class party) and mentioned the invitation they quickly said that they didn't realize Emily was one of the triplets and that all of the girls were invited. I felt bad about it at first and thought it was kind of like inviting ourselves to the party, but as it turned out it was a good thing we came because we were the only ones who showed up! Everyone had a good time though and although his family isn't comfortable with the the idea of him being anyone's "boyfriend" I think I explained to her that the girls don't really mean it like she thinks they do. He just happens to be their favorite friend that is a boy, they aren't looking for a romantic relationship with him. (Well, Emily might...in a few years, but I'm not going to let his family worry about that now!)

The girls talk about growing up a lot and how they want to be a princess (a bride) and marry a prince and that after they are married they will get to kiss and have a baby and be a mommy. (and then they always ask if I will be the baby when they become the mommy, and I explain that I will be the mamaw when they become a mom and they always think that's hilarious for some reason). Anyway, at first they all named male relatives as their "princes" and it was daddy, Uncle Chad and cousin Nick Rutan. All of a sudden, Emily has decided that Landyn will be her prince. She's a girl after my own heart...she's planning to marry a boy that's her friend first - worked for me! It's cute though...she says "Landyn's going to be my prince and we will have a baby and name it Linda." I usually reply with "okay, if you say so" or something like that and now she started adding "and mom, I'm not going to forget". Wow, so now she can read my mind too?

Madison is still saying that she wants Nick to be her prince...she always describes him to me each time she tells me. "you know, the one with the long black hair that I was thought was scary, but now I'm not scared". I tell you, that girl is going to give me all kinds of trouble during her teenage years. She has a thing for the boys that look like they are troublemakers. She's going to like the bad boys. *sigh*

Alexa just might give me a different kind of trouble during her dating years....her comment the other day made me stop in my tracks. She said "I don't want to marry a prince. I want to marry a princess!"....I hesitated, trying to think how I should respond to that and during my hesitation she went on to explain that she wanted to marry a princess because she didn't want to dance with a prince at her wedding - she wanted to dance with a princess in a big pretty dress. So I explained to her that when it's her wedding SHE would be the princess in the big pretty dress. She thought about that for a minute and then said she's not sure if she would rather marry a prince or a princess. Ummm....okay. Not sure how we will handle a dilemma like that if she's still undecided during her dating years, but I'm going to try not to worry about that until we have to.

Kids say the darndest things, don't they?