Deep Thoughts by Daphne

Daphne Faith Hunter is a force to be reckoned with. At 4 1/2 years, She is beautiful and brilliant and demanding and challenging and powerful. Sort of like our own little Alpha female. We love her immensely and I know that I talk about her challenges often, but those are never meant to be complaints, merely expressions of thought. I have no shortage of those. The past week has been full of speculative thought on Miss Daphne's part and I just had to share some of the occasions with y'all:
We were listening to the song, "Popular" from the musical Wicked, which Daphne loves. We have tried to explain to her that in the song, Glinda is wrong, that being popular really is not as important as just being yourself and knowing that God loves you. After the song, Daphne said to me, "Mom, Not everyone is popular." And I said, "No, not everyone is popular, but that's okay." Daphne matter-of-factly replied (flipping hair behind her shoulder) "Some people aren't popular. That's just how God made them."I have only trimmed Daphne's hair once before and the ends were getting pretty ragged. So, I trimmed the ends off of Daphne's beautiful curls and Daphne asked if she could take them to school and share them for science time. I agreed and asked if she knew why they are science and said, "When you cut your hair will it stay cut, or will it grow longer?" Daphne very thoughtfully said, "It will grow longer." Then she looked up at me intensely and said ( holding the ends of her hair in her hand), " I will put them in my cubby and I will get them out every day and I will watch them grow longer and longer!"

On the way to school, we were listening to the news and I heard a story about a woman who is being charged with child endangerment for driving while talking on her cell phone and breastfeeding a baby at the same time. I shouldn't have been surprised that Daphne was listening, but a few seconds after the report she said, " Well that won't work." And I said, "what?" Daphne said, "Driving and feeding a baby and talking on your phone. You'd need 3 hands. That's the first reason it's a bad idea. The second reason is that you'd go to jail and the three reason is well, aliens might have three hands to do it, but aliens aren't real. So."

Daphne was eating a snack in the kitchen and said, "Mom- I don't think it is fair for you to love only Daddy and nobody else." I tried to explain the different types of love and why I love Daddy differently than her and other people. After my long oratory, she huffed and said, "Well, Jesus loves everybody."

Some of the questions/comments from just the past week:
"Why do we say Christ after Jesus?"
"What does dissolve mean?"
"Why do we say outer before space?"
"Why did you choose to marry in the temple?"
" I want to go to the sacred grove, but not at night- it would be too freaky."
" What's in a cloud?"

I'm sure there are more that I can't think of, but my favorite is:

"Mom, I don't want to get married because I want to live with you forever."