Nail polish

My daughter first noticed nail paint when she was a year old. She couldn't speak then but would go and touch the nails of whoever was wearing them with rapture. I never wore nail paint in front of her or around her. So she never had seen it applied .
So when she was two and a half she got it applied to her nails by her cousins. On finishing applying on her hands she quickly showed her feet and said "Put it here too".

So this happened last week. We had been to a friends house and there were many kids there. The eldest girl among them was applying nail paint. So all the girls made a beeline to have their nails painted, two 3 year olds and a 6 year old. So my daughter got it applied too. She was so happy and ran to her father to show her painted nails.

Daughter - Showing her nails, "Daddy see, say wow."

Dad - "Eeeks ! This is so ugly, why did you get your nails painted?"

Daughter - "No daddy its pretty, say wow."

Dad - " No its looking very bad."

Daughter - "No say wow..." and with that she burst into tears until her dad agreed that they were pretty and said "Wow."

Then she came to me to show again with the same request to say wow.

Then later on I asked her why she had put it and I couldn't stop laughing when she answered me.

Me - "Why did you put the nail paint? Its not good."

Daughter - "Mom because its nice. A girl put it to me. Its has light mama, its golden.
Its pretty and I put it  because I want to be pretty pretty. My nails are sad mamma, they were crying because they want colors. So I put it. Its OK mamma, I wont put it again." saying so she kissed me.







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