Mila wants to be funny. She's not aspiring to class clown levels of comedy, but she definitely collects friends based on who is funny and who thinks she is funny. She's constantly telling jokes and generally has a really good sense of humor.
And now she has discovered sarcasm.
There are a couple of problems with this. The biggest one is that I am the Queen of Sarcasm and I wasn't really looking forward to the day when Mila would start to separate statements of fact from statements of sarcasm. It was easier when she would ask, "Do you want to hear about the TV show I watched?" and I could say, "I would love nothing more," and she thought I was serious. Instead of going on and telling me about all the ways Bluey is Public Enemy #1, now she pauses and asks if I'm being sarcastic or not and blurgh. Just tell me about the stupid show and ignore the fact that I'm not listening, kid.
The second problem is that Alexis is most excellent at sarcasm and now she's busted. Every time she says something sarcastic to Mila, Mila yells at her to stop being sarcastic. Anything that leads to them fighting is annoying in my book. So. They can both stop now.
But then we have the BIGGEST problem with Mila discovering sarcasm - she uses it. Except, I don't always know when she's using it because she has a lot of opportunities to learn how to use it well. She's a Mini Master, so to speak.
That means that earlier this week when Mila popped by my desk to say, "Oh, are you still working? You go right ahead and finish what you're doing. I'll take care of the incident with the glitter myself," I didn't know what parts of that were sarcastic or serious or .... what.
I chose to stay away from the incident with the glitter, which maybe worked out for me, but maybe I want to know? Maybe I don't? I really am not sure. Wherever the incident occurred, it doesn't seem to be in my direct path, so let's go with she was totally serious.
I hope.