Miss Five-year-old Thang
Me: What’s today?
Pie: My birthday.
Me: How can you tell?
Pie: Because there’s balloons and writing on my wall and the usual stuff that was on Doodles’s birthday.
Me: How old are you?
Pie: I’m turning five.
Me: How is five different from four?
Pie: ‘Cause you get to go into kindergarten.
Me: What are you most looking forward to.
Pie: Having Ms. V teach my class and Jasmine in my class.
Me: How will you celebrate your birthday?
Pie: With Mommy and Doodles.
Me: Doing what?
Pie: Going out and doing lots of fun, fun stuff with them.
Me: What can you do now that you couldn’t do when you were four?
Pie: I can swim by myself. I can do a little bit of writing. And I now know all my numbers.
Me: That’s a lot!
Pie: And that seems like enough.
Me: Absolutely. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Pie: A mom.
Me: Are you going to work outside the house?
Pie: No. Work in.
Me: How are you going to have money?
Pie: I don’t know.
Me: How many kids will you have?
Pie: Two or one.
Me: Any grand pronouncements?
Pie: No.
Me: What else do you want to say to everyone?
Pie: I don’t know. That’s all.
Me: Happy birthday, Pie Pie.
