This is why being an aunt rules

[sunstruck]

So I'm at my grandmother's for breakfast this morning and my brother and his wife and kids are there. My 4 year old neice is practically bouncing off the walls when I get there.

Apparently my brother had given her a cat of her very own this morning, a little female orange tabby that has a remarkable tollerence for being squeezed like a stuffed doll.

This is the conversation that took place:

Sister-in-law: "Well honey, it's your kitty, so you get to name her".

Neice: "Oh she's already got a name Mama. She told me so".

Brother: "Ok, so what did she say her name was?"

Neice: "Her name is Pussy".

Sister-in-law: Gufaw

Brother, Grandmother, Husbnad and Me: "BWAHAHAHA!!"

Apparently my sister-in-law has convinced my neice to call the cat Puss, like the story book. Doesn't matter. That cat is named Pussy as far as the rest of us are concerned.

 

[lovetoread]

Kids..ya gotta love them.

 

[sunstruck]

Especially when you get to send them home and laugh at their parents. lol

 

[Cheyenne]

Pussy! She'll be old enough to realize what she did before that cat is dead.

 

[Sillyman]

Maybe. Cat will probably die before then.

 

[calypso_21]

I love the things little ones come up with. My neice at the age of 3 was learning different animals. Going through a book of animals I would point to the animal and have her repeat it to me. We got to one and she had me rolling on the couch in laughter. I said go tell Daddy he is this (bushy tailed animal).

So she ran into the kitchen and said "Daddy, You're a fuck!"

My sister having already known how she said the word fox quickly did damage control through streaming tears of laughter.

 

[Cheyenne]

Maybe. Cat will probably die before then.

?? The kid is 4 now. A cat will easily live to 14 or 15. Hopefully, longer. By 18 or 19, I'll bet the niece catches on to the joke in the family!

 

[sunstruck]

In my family, we'll be lucky if she doesn't catch on by kindergarden, which is where I got nun spanked for calling the boy next to me a "frigin hoser".

What? He stole my crayon!

 

[lisalove]

*morbid flashback to childhood* That's what I called my cat when I was a kid. Didn't make the connection till I was 12, and he lived another 4 years.