Apparently all the stories we're telling Rachel are sticking. Tonight she said she had put a bunch of Winnie the Pooh stickers on Sophie, her balloon unicorn.
"Sophie's favorite character is a Greek myth," Rachel explained at dinner.
"Which character?" I answered.
"Ariadne," she said.
"Why?" I asked.
"'Cuz she's a princess," she said. "But Sophie's scared of the Minotaur 'cuz it's half man and half yak. Or half goat. I think it has straight horns. Or curved horns."
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"Humbert is a big giant," Rachel said, referring to one of the characters in Drew's Princess Caroline stories. "And Mrs. Humbert doesn't want Caroline to take him on adventures. And they have a baby giant. Guess how big the baby is? It's a big as his daddy. And just so you know, Humbert's a boy."
Um, ok, sweetheart!
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Rachel talked a bit about the hockey game she went to last month when Drew was in Wisconsin visiting his friend Jack.
"Hockey's just for boys. 'Cause they're afraid girls will get hurt," she said.
"That doesn't seem fair," I said. "Girls should be able to play hockey, too," I answered.
"Well, this makes really good sense," she explained. "Boys play with boys, and girls play with girls, so the girls don't actually get hurt."
I refrained from going into chapter and verse about Title IX. Figured I'd save it for another day.
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I'll have to tell Rachel about Manon Rheaume, Erin Written and Danielle Dube at a later date! (Women who played on men's minor pro hockey teams.) It does happen occasionally!
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