Spot On

After dinner, Maia sat down to do some colouring. Grabbing a pink crayon, she dotted the paper with spots.

'It is got chicken pox!' she said, eyes wide. Noonah and I laughed.

There was a notice on the door to the Beehive (her class) saying that another case of chicken pox has been reported. So we decided to ask Maia who else had chicken pox in her class.

'I have.' she said. 'Oh no you haven't.' we said 'You are all better now.'

'Umm...IsabelVerginty!'

'No...IsabelVerginty is back in school. It can't be her...who else might have chicken pox?'

'Ummm...Kate.'

'Ah ha.'

Later, after she had dotted the paper with a few more spots (blue, this time) Noonah said 'It is like Kate - she has chicken pox as well'

Maia looked at Noonah, eyes wide as if to say 'REALLY??'

Chinese whispers - toddler style.