'A' Moment ~ I swear I didn't teach her that!

This all happened a few weeks ago but I never got around to posting it.....

Okay so I'm running around to every sports store there is from here to PA. I cannot find football cleats in J's size. Suck! I am so annoyed. So finally the day of his first practice I throw him and A in the car and we're off to look at another mall and stores about 1/2 hour away. On the way there A falls asleep so I carry her into the store....no go, not J's size....we head back to the car and when I put A in her seat she wakes up and starts crying "why did you wake me up?" me, "I'm sorry baby, go back to sleep and I'll carry you into the next store." so she cries a bit more and then starts talking to J and is wide away. Yet when we arrive at the next store she wants me to carry her. I say "no, your awake now, I'm not carrying you. You can walk with J." so she's crying and whining, and all the sudden I grasp what she's saying.

A~ "Why is she looking at me?"
Me~ "Who?"
A~ "That girl! She's laughing at me!"
Me~ (I glance back and see a little girl about A's age walking with her dad, not paying A any attention) "A, she's not laughing at you."
A~ "Yes she is and she's not the same color as me!"

OMG I almost had a heart attack! First of all the little girl was Hispanic so she wasn't' really much darker than A. And secondly WHERE THE HELL DID SHE LEARN THAT??? OMG I never talk about color and all that. I mean really my mom's as white as they come and my dad being Puerto Rican is very very tan. I never heard her say anything like that.

Then just recently my sister was over and she has a 7 month old baby. Well my niece is on our side 1/2 everything and 1/2 PR and her dad is African, he's from the Ivory Coast. So she's very dark, not black dark, but like a PR with a very dark summer tan, you know? Well my sister is dark to begin with, darker than I am, but her daughter is still darker. Well when she was over A looks at them and says to my sister "Why aren't you the same color?" talking about her and her daughter. Where is this coming from? OMGoodness, that is all I need. Her going around making racial remarks about peoples color. lol.

J did it a little when he was A's age. But not as blatant. He'd just refer to people as 'the brown man' and 'the white man'. It was funny cause he would say this "mommy, daddy, A, me, ti-ti* H, and grandmom are white and uncle J, pop-pi*, and ti-ti* S are brown" lol, cause my brother and one sister along with my dad are really tan year round unlike my other sister me and my mom who are all white. lol. Kids are to funny sometimes.


*I know this isn't the way you are most likley supposed to spell these words but it is the spanish version of dad, and aunt. My kids call them that but that doesn't mean I know how to spell them. My dad never taught us Spanish, even though he's fluent. It still pisses me off to this day. So forgive me.