That's Miss Snot to you

I took Mini-Me with me last night to a meeting. Knowing that there were going to be moms and a few other kids there and hoping that she'd find a friend to play with. There were kids from 4 - to teenagedom there.

The Mom's were busy talking homeschool stuff - and the kids were busy trying to be quiet and noisy at the same time. On the way home, Mini-Me told me a story.

There was a boy (Boy A), she's not sure who he was - just that she thinks he was a teen, and BoyA had a pingpong ball. She said another boy, BoyB, took the ping pong ball and hid it in the kitchen area.

Boy A "made" Boy B show him where he'd hidden the ball. It was gone. Swiped. Not by Boy B, though.

Mini-Me had followed them quietly because she wanted to know where the ball had been hidden. Boy A turned to Mini-Me and asked her, "Did you steal it?"

To which she replied, "I did not steal it."

To which he called her a "Grammar Snot".

In the car last night, in the dark, she paused at this point in the story and said, "What's a 'grammar snot'?"

To which I did the only motherly thing I could think of....

I laughed.

and then I stopped. I had to think of it...and had her repeat the story as exact as she possibly could. Really, why else would he tell her that?

I said, 'You speak clearly, you use big words, and you enunciate properly. In short, you communicate well."

She uses big words that make grown ups laugh. It's quite fun...
Now I've got to figure out a way to insert some sass into her answers for comments like that... ...the trick is being respectful AND sassy at the same time.

one thing about it - they'll understand her.