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What does "sweet pea" mean?

Me: Why?
Daughter: E calls me "sweet pea."
Me: Why does he call you that?
Daughter: He crushed me.
Me: He has a crush on you. How do you know?
Daughter: Oh. Yah. K said he has a crush on me.
Me: Do you know what that means?
She shakes her head.
Me: It means he likes you.
She makes a yuck face.
Me: You don't like him?
Daughter: No! Blech.
Me: "Sweet pea" is like "sweetie pie" or "cutie" or "sweetie."
Daughter: Ugh.
Me: So E has a crush on you, huh?
Daughter: Yah.
And her youth, it slips away a little more.

Comments

  1. xikita on 2006-06-20 08:21:26 wrote: Awwww your girl is a heartbreaker ;)

  2. disneymike on 2006-06-20 11:11:16 wrote: Yes, I’m quite familiar with youth slipping away as my daughter is now seventeen years old and will be graduating from high school next year. sigh

  3. Simon on 2006-06-20 18:25:29 wrote: awww. That was really cute. I want to have a daughter to ask me that when I get older.

  4. Abner on 2006-07-08 10:15:29 wrote: Too cute, too too cute! Kids lose their youth too quick nowadays don’t they?

  5. Kristen on 2006-07-13 20:14:00 wrote: That’s what I call my kids, “sweet pea”. At least the boy’s got good taste in pet names…he can’t be all bad.

  6. Cristina on 2006-08-13 08:57:54 wrote: So sweet. I know the feeling, I have a daughter too and she is growing up too fast for me.