6 going on 16??

So, tonight during our nighttime routine, the conversation goes like this:

 

Kendra - "So, mom, today I got invited to my first BOY party"

Mom - "Oh yeah, whose birthday is it?"

Kendra - "Well, it isn't a birthday party"

Mom - "Oh?"

Kendra - "Yeah, it is for Brian.  He is the one that wants to be a paleontologist like me."

Mom - "Did you get an invitation?"

Kendra - "No, he is going to give it to me tomorrow."

Mom - "Is Kaylie invited too?"

Kendra - "No, it is just a party for me and Brian to celebrate being paleontologists"

Kendra - "Mom, he is really nice. Sometimes I hold his hand when he gets scared"

Mom - "Oh? He knows that you can't date until you are 17, right?"

Kendra - "Yes, he knows that.  We are just friends for now."

 

Mom - rolls eyes, takes a deep breath, and another, and another, kisses Kendra good night, then goes to take blood pressure medication......

 

YIKES!!

 

Not quite sure where she gets this precociousness. Certainly not from me?  A Paleontologist?  Really?

 

~Ali