Yup. She is three and she totally schooled me a few weeks ago. It was one of those A HA! moments that I will hold onto for a long time. It was after her birthday party (and yes, I am still working on that post!) and we were opening presents with a few friends still hanging out, namely Tia Viv. She is very important to this story! The pictures were cycling through on our Apple Tv, which Callie loves. She loves pointing out people and relaying the stories that she remembers, most of which begin with "'member yesterday when..." even if it was a year ago. A picture of her from the hospital came up and she said "Mama that's when you were born." I was already in the middle of smiling and saying "No...Callie that's when YOU were born," when Tia Viv looked over at me astonished and I can't tell you exactly what she said but she clued me in to hey, callie is right!
I basically wanted to smack myself on my head and say "DUH!' She is so right! That is when I was born. That is when my name changed and so did my world.
This is a reminder to me of why as a mom you can't just push aside people that don't have kids. I explored this a bit over two years ago with this post. Yes, sometimes they won't understand why you can't come out as often or you will be embarrassed by Callie constantly talking about how she went pee in the potty and how proud she is that she wears panties now but they have a perspective that is outside of my own and is pretty damn smart. So well done Tia Viv. You are definitely a keeper.
