Yesterday, When She Was Seven

Yep, our Kelly’s 8 today!  She was born here in Austin on 9-11-01 at 2:10 p.m.  It was 3:10 in NYC.

Nothing like videotaping her 7-year-old interview at the eleventh hour — yesterday late afternoon, to be precise.   I’ll post more clips in the future, but for now I give you… “I’d Rather Be A Girl.” (Transcript included below in case you have trouble making out the words.)

Transcript…

Me:  Kelly — question 41.  If you could be somebody else for just one day, who would you be?

Kelly:  Either you, my dad or Genevieve my friend, or my best friend, Isabella.

Me:  So, why would you want to be me for a day?

Kelly:  Because I wouldn’t have to go to school.

Me:  Yah.

Kelly:  Actually, I wouldn’t want to be my dad.

Me: No?

Kelly: Because the privates — I wouldn’t know how to work the privates.

Me:  (Laughter.)  You don’t know how to work the male privates.

Kelly:  No.

Me: If you had them you’d probably know what to do with them, tho.

Kelly:  I wouldn’t wanna know what to do anyway.

Me:  (Profusive cackling)

Kelly:  So I’d rather be a girl.