Conversation with Rowan

As I was taking Rowan's braids out of her hair, she started a conversation with me.

"I want a new mommy," she said to me.

“You want a new mommy?” I repeated back.

“Yes.”

“Why?”

“So I don’t get in trouble?”

“Why do you get in trouble, Rowan?” I inquired.

“Because I don’t listen and obey,” she answered correctly.

“You don’t think you should get in trouble when you don’t listen and obey?”

“No,” she said, matter of factly.

“Your new mommy wouldn’t punish you for not listening and obeying?”

“No,” she responded, confidently.

“Oh, okay.”

“And my new mommy will paint my fingernails. And I would get new sisters. You would be my old mommy,” the four-year-old concluded.

Wow, you don’t get in trouble, you get new sisters, and your fingernails painted? Now I know what the perfect mommy does.