Confessions of an 8 yr old

I was driving my daughter to practice the other day and she was jabbering on about something as usual. One thing I notice about girls over boys is they just have a need to be making SOME type of sound ALL THE TIME.  Anyway...she started talking about boys.

DD: "None of the boys like me...I mean like LIKE me"

Me: "It's ok, you're in 3rd grade, boys are GROSS! anyway, they have COOTIES!"

DD: "Well I have a boyfriend...he used to be my EX-boyfriend but then we got back together, so now we're dating."

Me: "What does 'dating' mean these days, what do you do when you're "dating"?"

DD:  "We play together at recess, play games, pretend stuff, and swing on the swings together.  Swinging together is TOTALLY romantic."

Me: "Hmmm...swinging huh?"

DD: "Yep, Swinging."

Me: "Ok...sounds interesting, try not to get cooties!"

DD: "OH Mom! Really nobody gets cooties these days, that must have been something you old people got...now all kids get is Lice."

Me: "YIKES!!  No Lice either, I'd rather have cooties!"

DD giggles and moves on to another subject. Car conversations are always informative.


Upon further investigation(or rather the image results when I searched for "Cooties" on google images) it seems that Cooties and Lice are the same thing...so I don't want anything to do w/ either one! YUCK!