Every afternoon, after Sophia wakes up from her nap, I make it a point to ask her about what she did in school while we we eat snacks in the garden. If you’ve been with my daughter, you’ll know she’s a good storyteller. Sumbungera in short as she just loves talking, period.

I had the shock of my life with the story she had in store for me yesterday though.

Here’s how our conversation went.

Sophia: “Mommy, I was fighting with somebody in school today.”
Me: “What, fighting? Why? What did you do? Why did you fight? Fighting is not nice.”

Halata bang na tense? Ang dami na agad tanong? LOL.

Sophia: “I pinched a girl.”
Me: “Pinched? Why, what happened? Who did you pinch? Why did you do that? That’s not nice. Don’t do that again.”
Sophia: “I only like playing with my friends Amira and ____ (I forgot the name) and I didn’t like playing with the girl with a mole here (pointing on her cheek) so I pinched her because she keeps on disturbing us.”
Me: “Sophia, that is not nice blah blah blah…yada yada yada…”

Sermon to the max but I had the urge to ask where she pinched the “girl with a mole.” To my surprise, she re-enacted the whole scene pa. She took of my slippers and told me to stand and then she held on my right foot and pinched it on the side. Sabay sabi ng “Like that, Mommy.” I suddenly asked, “What did the girl say, what did she do?” She answered, “She just went away.”

Oh my.

But the story doesn’t end there. Here’s more.

Apparently, she was still “inis” with the girl with a mole so she followed her and shouts a “big hurray!” with matching raising of two hands in front of her. As in shout ha, she re-enacts eh. And I asked,

Me: “What did the girl do?”
Sophia: “She transferred to the other line…”
Me: “And?”
Sophia: “I followed her again and shouted “HURRAY!” (with action and a big loud voice talaga!) in front of her.

(If you’re familiar with the song “If you’re happy and you know it shout HURRAY!”, that same type of hurray)

I know this is bad but I wasn’t able to help myself, I laughed so hard! BAD!!! Di ko mapigilan. If only you’ve seen how her eyes grow really big and the big voice she has when she says hurray, matatawa ka. Natatawa rin ako why on earth would my three year old daughter do something like that?!?!?!? SUSME! Syempre palusot ako, I said I wasn’t laughing because of what she did kase bad yun but I was laughing because of something else and then came the sermon, a long one at that.

At the end, she promised to not do it again and I told her to say sorry the next day.

Hay, grabe. I was so afraid that she might get bullied in a big class setting but never really imagined or expected that she’d be the bully!