A conversation took place in the car this evening, which I am sure will stick with me for quite some time. The twins had ballet class and afterwards we decided to go out for a quick dinner. Katie was feeling kind of blue. The high of her trip to Malaysia had worn off and she's starting to get a little cold. She loves to dance, but because she is bigger than most of her classmates, she feels really self conscious about how she looks in dance attire. The two of us are working together to right the weighted ship and get ourselves in shape. She weeped as she said she wished she could eat and look like Sarah and Sydney, so she could be skinny. Sarah didn't mean to make matters worse when she said that she could eat all the junk food in the world and still not gain weight. I tried the ever true "Wouldn't the world be a boring place if we all looked the same?" It fell flat. I needed something stronger to turn the mood positive.
Enter Syd. Usually she and Katie are like oil and water or cats and dogs or an oil covered cat and a water soaked dog, but every once and a while, there is a moment that reassures me they do in fact love each other. She said, "I am who I am for a reason, and you are who you are for a reason."
Wow, pretty deep for an eight year old. The kid knows how to work a crowd, a moment, anything. She was the first in the entire school to reach two hundred reward points, earning her a gold certificate. The students are given points when they go above and beyond. Since there's nothing higher than the gold certificate, I'm wondering what her motivation will be for the rest of the year.
As I was relishing in the outpouring of compliments, Sydney wanted to keep things real and said to Katie, "I wish sometimes I could sing like you, and I bet you wish you could be as smart as me." Way to keep it real, Syd.
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