A 4 Year-Old Love Triangle

Jayson usually volunteers in Audrey's classroom once a month. This month he's insanely busy with taxes, so I took a personal day to volunteer. Audrey asked me for weeks when I was going to teach her class. I kept explaining that I would be a helper, not a teacher, but she still asked every day. When the big day finally came, her teacher and student teacher told me that Audrey had been so excited every day and counted down the days to me coming in.

Audrey has twins in her class, Ethan and Preston, and she is constantly talking about them. She walks around the house singing, "Audrey and Ethan and Preston sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G..." I keep trying to explain to her that that's not quite how it works, but she insists it's fine. It just so happened that Ethan and Preston's mom was also volunteering on the same day I did. She immediately told me that the boys talk about Audrey constantly at home and I told her we get the same thing about Ethan and Preston in our house. I got the pleasure of working on a dinosaur puzzle with Preston, and I have to admit, Audrey has good taste. The kid was smart, polite, and very sweet.

Ethan and Preston's told me a story about how they Skyped with some of their family and they asked Ethan (or maybe it was Preston?) if he had a girlfriend. He immediately told them that Audrey was his girlfriend and they all laughed and thought it was sweet. Then they asked Preston (or Ethan?) if he had a girlfriend and he got a little flustered and said, "Well I like Audrey too!"

I was just cleaning up some papers the girls had left out and came across this gem: