Rock, Paper, Scissors......Shoe???

Lia is the youngest student in her Montessori pre-school class. The students range in age from 3 to 5. The older children provide excellent modeling for many skills...and are actually considered "co-teachers" in the Montessori environment. I am excited to watch Lia over the next few years as she goes from being the youngest to becoming one of the older students in her class and assumes more of a leadership role.

But of course in addition to the desirable skills and behaviors, she is also picking up a few, shall we say, "questionable" phrases and learning some "funny things" from her older friends. The "funny face" in the picture above is just one example of what is apparently all the rage in pre-school these days. She does this every time I get the camera out!!

Just this week she came home saying, "Knock-knock". Of course I answered with, "who's there?". This is where it all begins to fall apart. She chooses any object she spies in the room, such as "refrigerator". When I say "Refrigerator who?", she comes back with something like, "Refrigerator cabbage"...and then laughs hysterically. Frankly, it is hard not to join in with her contagious gleefulness and we have laughed ourselves silly over many such crazy jokes this week.

She stumped us for a bit over dinner a few nights ago when she asked us if we wanted to play "rock, paper, scissors, shoe". When I questioned her a little bit she started to pump her fist up and down saying, "rock, paper, scissors, SHOE!". I realized she was trying to play rock, paper, scissors......Shoot! So innocent and sweet........and keeping her Mama and Daddy in stitches this week!