Jadyn Justified - Prez Facts

Jadyn spent last night giving Andy and me a few presidential facts [as she remembered them] from a book that her teacher read in class called Why is the White House White?:

President Taffy was so fat that he got stuck in the bathtub, so they built a special one for him [President Taft];

Teddy Bear Roosevelt is who the stuffed bear is named for [Theodore Roosevelt];

One of our presidents liked to wake up two hours early every morning to go skinny dipping [James Madison];

Abraham Lincoln was killed in a movie theater [side note: when Jadyn was four, she called President Lincoln "Hammerham Lincoln"];

When there was a battle being fought near the white house, the president's wife rescued a painting of George Washington [Dolly Madison, wife of James]; and

John Adams hung all of their dirty underwear up in the 'big room' of the white house [doing laundry, I assume.]

Seeing the world through the eyes of an eight year old is remarkable. I love all of the tid-bits and "facts" she shares with us. Jadyn is pretty damn amazing and she is growing up WAY too quickly.

Jadyn - Justified: Policemen

We've all heard the saying 'Kids Say the Darndest Things' and it's totally true. Kids are so much smarter than we [adults] give them credit for. They absorb everything seen and heard, and the way they put everything together is quite amusing! Jadyn has had a lifetime of funnies [all of which are written down in a book]--she is definitely our little payaso. Below is a conversation that Andy and I had with our 8-year old little girl on Sunday evening:

Jadyn: If either of you do anything illegal and a police officer asks me about it, I'm going to have to tell him.
Jaimie: You would get us into trouble? That's very disloyal.
Jadyn: I cannot lie to a police officer.
Andy: What if the police officer was really ugly and he asked you if you thought he was attractive...what would you tell him?
Jadyn: I would have to tell him he's attractive.
Jaimie: Why? That's lying to a police officer.
Jadyn: If I told him that he was ugly I would go to jail.
Jaimie: A police officer can't put you in jail for telling him he's ugly.
Jadyn: Yes he can because that would be assaulting a police officer
Andy & Jaimie: [Pause. Laugh]
Andy: No, Jadyn. I think you mean Insulting a police officer!