Future Orthopedic

Ok, so if I talk to you regularly, then you already know Olivia's new obsession....but if it doesn't go on the blog, then it never existed, right?! Ha.

One night, Olivia was rubbing my back and felt my shoulder blade poking out. She said "WHAT is that????"
Me: My shoulder blade
O: (looks confused)
Me: It's a bone
O: What's a bone?
Me: Ummmm, they're hard. They hold your body together. You can't see them.
O: Oh.

A couple minutes later, she goes to bed and hits her head. She immediately said "ouch! Is my head a bone?"
Me: Yes, there is a bone in your head
O: And my elbow?
Me: Yes. And your knee. And your arm....etc. etc.
We do our bedtime ritual and move on.

The next day I pick her up from school and she asks "Does your nose have a bone?"
Me: Yes (thinking: have you seriously been obsessing about bones all day???)
O: It's hiding?
Me: Yes, it's hiding.

We've since had a discussion about teeth and how teeth are bones too. She says "but they don't hide". No my dear, they don't hide. She has advised the Walmart cashier that she has bones in her head (yet the Walmart cashier thought she was talking about her new weave..LOL). She's told our hairdresser all about bones. She will randomly tell anyone that will listen all about their bones.

She's told me before that she's going to be a doctor when she grows up.

I bet she doesn't know that bone doctors exist!