People and Shapes

I’m not sure how it really happened.  I just came home one day and Tamara said, “You need to listen to this.”

“Gage, what shape is daddy?”

My little three year old boy looked up and scrutinized me for a moment before saying, “A circle.”  I admit, it was none too flattering, as my mind quickly began to consider, ‘Holy cow, am I really that round?’  Then she asked the next question.

“What shape is mommy?”

His reply, “Mmmm, an octagon.”

It was then that I understood his assessment had a lot less to do with our appearance and more to do  with…well, I’m not really sure what.  So, for your reading pleasure, I have compiled the following table of people and their alleged shapes, according to my three year old:

Name	Estimated Shape
Daddy	Circle
Mommy	Hexagon
Griffin	Circle
Gage	Circle
Haven	Circle
Mammy	Hexagon
Pa	Circle
Me-me	Hexagon
Pa-paw	Circle
Uncle Russ	Circle
Aunt Charlotte	Hexagon
Miranda	Hexagon
Larissa	Hexagon
Uncle Kenny	Circle
Aunt Karen	Hexagon
Kendal	Circle
Karinda	Hexagon
Uncle Darren	Circle
Aunt Christy	Hexagon
Ashley	Hexagon
Uncle Charles	Circle
Aunt Neen	Hexagon
Dexter	Circle
Alex	Hexagon
Piper	Hexagon

At first brush, you might be tempted to say that he believes all girls to be hexagons and all boys to be circles, but baby sister is the fly in the ointment for that theory.  She is the lone girl that is consistently a circle no matter how many times you ask him.  Add to this the fact that mommy started out as an octagon, but now moves between a circle and a hexagon.  We were informed, yesterday, that when she’s nice, she’s a circle; when she’s mean, she’s a hexagon.

I really don’t know what equation his little mind uses to figure all this out, but if your name isn’t on the list above and you have a burning desire to know your shape, send me an e-mail and I’ll have Gage do a free reading on you.