Last night my hubby and I were sitting on the couch just chillin’. My 4 year old, Little G, came up and sat between us with a soccer magazine in hand. He just kinda hangs out and looks at his magazine and hubby and I talk. At one point Little G says,”I wike these Nike cleats. They are Ronaldinho cleats.” Hubby says to me, “lets do a test”.

“Little G, show me Adidas cleats”

Little G rifles through the magazine and finds some Adidas cleats. I look on at the strange sight unfolding.

“show me Puma cleats”, “Which team is this?”(to which Little G could answer Chelsea and Manchester Football Clubs) “Who is this guy?” (players like Drogba and Ronaldinho are answered)

I tell my husband that this is really sick and he should be really embarrassed. I mean, he could have taught our 4 year old all the continents, or the alphabet or his numbers. But no, while other 4 year olds sing the ABC song, mine can tell you who the goalie of Brasil National Football team. Yeah…..that’s high class right there.

And to throw insult to injury, I tell my 4 year old to go grab a library book in hopes of reversing some of the soccer damage that has been done. He chooses this really cute book. On each page it ask what does this animal say. Like “which baby animal says woof?” . He gets woof right. The 2nd page says “which animal says moo”. Pause……still nada. So I say”Little G, which animal says moo?”.

“a duck?”

Oh my gosh, my kids thinks a duck says moo! I’m gonna kill, really kill, my husband.

“Which animal says neigh?”

{silence on the part of my 4 year old}

“I think its a….I don’t know”.

Ok, seriously we go through this whole stupid baby animal sound book and my kid knows that a dog goes woof and a cat goes meow. Yeah, thats it. Kid don’t know that a cow goes moo or a duck goes quack.

Little G pronounces that he does not ‘wike’ this animal book. My husband pulls Little G in for a big hug and beams with pride. Pride! He can name off soccer players from Brasil without hesitation, but can’t tell you what noise a cow makes!!!! Hubby tells Little G that he is definitely his son. Oh my gosh! This is like the Twilight Zone .