Alternate magnifying glass

OK, so I know I write about Asha way too much and you're probably all sick of it but I just can't help it! She's so funny and I'm pretty sure also a friggin' genius. Here's what she said to me today: "We should get an alternate magnifying glass" to which I replied "and what would that be?". She said that it is like a magnifying glass but it takes big things and makes them look smaller. When I asked her where she heard that she said she just thought of it on her own. I grilled her on where she might have heard of it but she swore she got it from her own head. (I know that this it true because although she is brilliant she isn't a good liar. I think it legitimately hasn't occurred to her to lie yet.) Anyway, an alternate magnifying glass?? Isn't that amazing? She never ceases to amaze me with her imagination.

Well I have decided that Asha and Nia are my alternate magnifying glasses. The world is so vast and full of ideas and images and experiences but they help me hone in on what really matters. My world is pretty simple and small but I like it that way.

The other thing that I love about Asha is her unabashed wierdness. She starts school at 7:45 in the morning. Yes, you read that right. It's ridiculous. Well when we're waiting outside of the classroom (yes we get there early because Asha's teacher, Ms. Lucy is a punctuality NAZI!) Asha's routine is to run around like a crazy person on the grass. Most of the kids are looking bleary eyed and tired and Asha is literally running circles around them. Two of the girls in her class are named Charlotte and Cosette. Do you have a mental image of these girls? Well that image is likely bang-on. They are both very sweet, pretty girls. They usually stand politely with their moms looking slightly afraid of yet also slightly amused by Asha. Today Asha decided that it was backward day and she should walk backwards into class. At first Charlotte and Cozy (as she's called) looked unsure but eventually both decided it looked fun too. Ms. Lucy was a bit stunned but very amused as all of the kids walked into class backwards.

I predict that Asha is not going to be a cool kid but neither will she be a social reject. I think she's going to be the girl that the high school Mean Girls despise but everyone else likes. I also think that with her spice and immense creativity she just may rule the world some day. I mean, if she can get a Shirley Temple look-alike named Cosette (who had her initials monogrammed on her dress I might add) to walk backwards she can do just about anything!!

P.S. Do you have "Castle on a Cloud" in your head now? Every damn day I say hello to Cosette and I walk away with that song in my head! I always want to sng "Cosette, I love you very much" to her but I figure they're either sick to death of that or else I would look like a creepy pedophile!