Hanna (age 8) was attempting to balance on a blue tube in the pool and was making quite the game of it. She would push off from the edge, straddling her surf board like she had seen in Florida and Soul Surfer (banned in three states and my house) and started talking herself into standing on the tube.

When she started to make some small signs of progress she would call to her sisters, “Hey Guys! Check it out! I’m riding on the ocean! I’m surfing on the ocean! I’m riding the big-O!”

“Hey Mommy? Do you know what the big O is?”

Umm. Do you?

This was only slightly more disturbing than Ellie coming out of the school the other day and announcing to all of the parents waiting to pick-up kids in the parking lot, while holding out the lid to her water bottle.

Me: Hi Sweetie, how was school today?

Ellie: Everything was great. Except my water broke.