I've always suspected that Gwen could read my mind. She tends to suddenly bring up things I've just been thinking about. It's weird.

Well, now I've got proof. Yesterday, I put the kettle on for tea. Gwen asked what I was doing, and I said, "I'm making some tea." Now, just knowing that she's a mostly negative 3-year-old, I thought to myself, "She's going to say, 'I don't like tea.'"

To my surprise, what she said was, "Why did you say I don't like tea?"

!!?

But then my "proof" disappeared as I asked her, "What number am I thinking of?"

"2?"

"No."

"3?"

"No. 5. What color am I thinking of?"

"Pink?"

"No."

"Blue?"

"No. Black. What animal am I thinking of?"

"A rhinoceros?"

"Uh...no. A cat."

I'm making light of the situation, but it really does kind of freak me out when I think about it. I mean, why would she says that? "Why did you say I don't like tea?" I didn't say it. I thought it. And why does she suddenly bring up a friend of mine that I haven't seen in a long time but was just thinking about? Or a certain song? Or an activity we'd done the day before? I mean, yes, I admit that my first thought is the probably ridiculous, "She's reading my mind!" but I always chalk it up to, "Well, she misses that friend of ours too" or "She likes that song too" or "We had a lot of fun yesterday, so she was thinking about it too."

But "Why did you say I don't like tea?" Right after I thought, "She's going to say, 'I don't like tea'"?? Come on.

Sometimes I think we're all born with these extra senses but that we just sort of grow out of them, as we grow up. I want to somehow cultivate this ability in her, if it's truly there...but I'm not sure how....