When Spelling Goes Awry

Last night after dinner we gave the girls some Alphabet cookies and milk for dessert.  They're organic and taste like a cinnamon flavored shoe box, so, they're relatively healthy as far as desserts go.  Anyway, typically our older daughter plays around with the cookies to see what words or phrases she can spell.  Our youngest blindly follows suit and inexplicably always announces that she spelled "Dre" - our dog's name.  Being a non-reader at this point, she wouldn't know Dre from diphtheria, but, dammit...that's what she thinks she spells every time. 

Well, by chance our 4 year-old set her "letters" up on the table last night and I see the word "Maui" in plain sight.  "Holy shit, honey, she 'spelled' Maui!" I said to my wife.  We laugh and our older daughter gets all excited about the fact that her younger sister spelled her first word, so to speak.  "Look Lu!  You spelled Maui!  YOU spelled MAUI!"  she says.  "No I didn't!  I spelled Dre," she replies. "No you didn't.  You spelled Maui, see?  M-a-u-i, Maui!"  "I spelled Dre!!!  [Slowly] Aaaaaaaaaa-Ooooooooo-7-A. Dre!!!!"

An argument ensues.  They continue to go back and forth to the point they're yelling at each other enough to merit parental intervention.  We calm the situation down and continue on with our evening.  However, our older daughter managed to sneak in a few more jabs at her little sister about the whole incident - her lack of spelling, her inability to read, etc.  It was innocent for the most part and, as big sister, well within the rules of engagement, lest she be pwned by a little kid.  Fair enough.

However, just before bedtime our older daughter slips my wife a sweet little post-it note  with the following inscribed: Mom, you are the beast!

Touche, Karma.

Comments

[Ed (zoesdad)]

F-U-N-I-E!!!

[creative-type dad]

That was the beast story I've read all day.