First Crush

Tonight I asked S if he knew what day tomorrow was.

"Valentine's Day,"  he said.  Then he proceeded to talk about crushes.  How Robin from Teen Titans has a crush on Starfire, and that Robin fainted when Starfire kissed him on the cheek.

On the spur of the moment, I asked him if he had a crush.

"Yes, but it's sooo embarrassing."  S said with a giant crazy grin and giggle of a 9-year old.   

As a mom, of course I had to ask who it was (A little sad that I wasn't his one and only Valentine anymore).

"I have a crush on Franny." 

"Why do you have a crush on her?"

"Because she's nice to me sometimes.  I only told some people, so that's OK."  Little does he know how gossip works.

Just to make sure we were on the same page, I asked him if he knew what a crush was. 

"No,"

Sigh.  So I told him it's liking a person like boyfriend-girlfriend. 

"Oh.  Then I have a crush on Franny, without all that yucky kissing stuff.  That's too mushy.  Shane said I have a crush on her."

"Does Shane have a crush too?"  Great peer pressure.

"Yes, but he didn't tell anybody who.  Just his cousin."

Before I launched into a theoretical discussion of why not so-and-so or you're-too-young, I just decide to take it for what it is.  A crush on a girl without any mushy stuff.  "So you just want to be her friend."

"Yes."  Then he starts talking about Teen Titans again and how they're doing a Valentine's Day special and again about how Robin faints when he was kissed on the cheek by Starfire.  "But they're teenagers, so that's why they kiss." 

He's not a teenager yet, so I am happy that he won't do any of that stuff (yet).  I am happy that he spent tonight writing out his Valentine cards to every boy and girl in his class, that tomorrow he'll pass them out along with all the other kids and that he's still more excited about watching the Valentine's Day episode for Teen Titans than anything else.