Logan’s ongoing and long-term baby obsession has taken on a new low.
Called to school to pick up the aforementioned child early because he had an on-again, off-again headache and tummy ache, I was leading my offspring, who didn’t seem sick at all, past the playground on our way to the van when his kindergarten teacher stopped me.
My little tall tale teller at age 2
“Um, I thought you might want to know that Logan has been telling everyone today that you are expecting,” she whispered so the other kids wouldn’t hear.
“What?!” I practically shrieked, appalled.
“Yeah, I didn’t think it was true, but he said, ‘My mom’s going to have a baby and then there will be 7 people in our family!’” she said. “I asked Mrs. Taylor (Cody’s teacher) if it was true and she asked Cody. He said no, but I just thought you might want to have a talk with Logan about it.”
“Well, it’s not true,” I said, still reeling. “Logan really WANTS a baby, but I’m NOT expecting.”
Minutes later, as he sat safely strapped into his booster seat in the van, I turned an evil stare on my youngest child.
“So,” I said, my voice dripping with warnings. “I hear you told everyone that I’m having a baby.”
He instantly looked abashed. “Well, yeah,” he admitted.
“Why would you say that when it’s not true?” I asked, genuinely perplexed.
“Well, because I wanted to make everyone happy,” he said. ” I wanted to make it a happy day for my teachers and my friends.”
“I see,” I said, beginning to be more amused than angry. “Do you realize that making up something about someone like that is a lie?”
Logan’s little face looked both upset and startled by this news. He clapped his hands to his mouth. “A lie?” he asked, behind his covered mouth.
“Yes, because now people believe something about me that isn’t true. I know you didn’t mean to tell a lie, but that’s what it was,” I said.
“I’m sorry, Mom,” he said in his most sincere tone. “I’ll be sure to tell everyone tomorrow that you’re not really having a baby and that I was just making it up so they’d be happy.”
“Thank you,” I said, appeased.
As fast as gossip like that gets around (divorced mom of 4 kids who isn’t even in a relationship is now pregnant with her FIFTH child and no one knows who the father is…you can imagine the rest), I wouldn’t have been at all surprised to have my daughters come home from school and ask me why I didn’t tell them I’m having a baby.
Thank goodness the rumor appears to have been contained in the grade school with no spillover to the middle and high school.
For now.
Sigh.
Has your child ever told a tall tale about your family?
hahahhahaha. Who cares what people think; it’s obvious you’re a great parent, and THAT is what they should focus on. Logan sounds like a gem of a little guy.
My stepdaughter lives with us, and her real mother barely sees her, even though she only lives 30 minutes away. After awhile, whenever she would talk about her mom, her friends said they didn’t believe that she had “another” mom, because they never saw her. So she started telling her that her mom lives in Texas. We live in Alabama.