For her birthday we were taking Secily out to eat at a restaurant of her choosing. When everyone came to get me from work to go to dinner I got in the car and started asking Secily where she wanted to go. She had picked Red Lobster earlier in the day because she wanted to see the lobsters swimming in the tank. But I wanted to hear this from her so I was asking anyways.
Somewhere along the lines she had gotten fixated on birthday cake so when I asked her why she wanted to go to Red Lobster she said because of birthday cake. Then trying to coax the other answer out of her I got some more interesting answers. The conversation went a little like this:
Me: So, why do you want to go to Red Lobster?
Secily: They have birthday cake!
Me: Oh Yeah? Do they have something else?
Secily: ummm, GOOD birthday cake!!!!!
Me: No, no. Something else. Not birthday cake.
Secily: ummm… Chocolate birthday cake??
Me: They swim around?
Secily: ummm. I dunno.
Me: Lobsters. Do you want to see the lobsters?
Secily: Lobsters swim in my birthday cake?!?!?!
We had a laugh and finished out the conversation. Connor and I moved on to something else and I could hear Tracy continuing to take to Secily. They were talking about God and how he’ll love to wish her a happy birthday and how he’ll have more room in her heart because she is growing up and getting bigger. Then she gets quiet for a sec like she is working something out and finally puts it to words.
“I get birthday cake. Jesus will get birthday cake too since Jesus lives in my heart. I think I’ll need two pieces of birthday cake!!!”
Quite a jump in logical thinking coming from a just-turned-four-year-old. I think we are going to have to watch out for this one.