The other day, my youngest son made reference to "a sexy lady."
This morning, he prepared for "picture day" at school and was in my bathroom, where I was applying mousse to his hair. He noticed my makeup on the counter and then asked me, "Are you wearing lipstick?"
"Yes."
"Which one?"
So I pointed out the one I'd put on.
"Do you have other colors?"
"Yes."
"Where? Can I see them?"
And I showed him a few tubes of varying shades of copper, pink and red.
He pointed out one to me. "I think if you wear this one, you'll be a sexy lady."
(This son's name is Noam. After I went back to work after maternity leave, I was telling someone what his name was, and her immediate response was "to know'm is to love'm." It's "sexy lady" comments like these that help remind me of that!")
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Wednesday Night Update:
Okay, so I took CM's question and posed it to Noam. He explained that to be sexy, a woman has to be skinny, has to dress nice and has to wear red lipstick. Wow, this 6-year-old kid thinks like an adult, doesn't he?
See, I've been watching what I eat lately, so he must hear the word "skinny" said pretty often 'round these parts. So when I first asked him what "sexy lady" meant to him, his initial reaction was "You can't be fat. When are you going to be skinny? A sexy lady is skinny."
Just now, I repeated the story to my husband as he kissed Noam good night. He asked Noam, "Am I sexy?"
"Yes," he responded without any hesitation. Then my husband asked him, "Is Eema sexy?"
"ALMOST."
