Evie was talking to her grandmother on the phone last night. I was putting Tank to bed in the next room so I could hear the whole conversation but wasn't contributing anything. Grandmother asked if Evie was going to church the next day. Evie said, "I don't know" but then asked her grandmother if she was going to come to the same church as her. The grandmother said yes. (With no intention to go). Evie said, "Yay! Then I get to see you!" She proceeded to give her grandmother directions to the church (which made no sense because she's five) and then said, "And you come in and look for me and we'll wave at you and you can come sit by me and Miss Allison and then I get to see you!!!"
At this point, Tank was still not asleep but I was itching to get back in the room to correct this whole situation.
The conversation continued: "Are you going to come to the same church as me tomorrow?" This time the grandmother said, "I don't know..." Evie said, "Just say yes" so the grandmother said "yes." Evie said, "Yay!!"
I finally was able to get back in the room, and Evie told me, "Grandmother is going to come to the same church as me tomorrow." I told her that they live in a different place and go to a different church... and she said without hesitation, "OK." Easy as that. Why the grandmother would say that she would be at the same church (and thus disappoint her when she wasn't there), I don't know!
File under I Just Don't Understand.
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