You know it’s a good Sunday School class session when people start throwing Seinfeld quotes or Bill Cosby quotes around. Really. Does that show the depth of biblical knowledge or secularism amongst us all? Maybe. But sometimes it’s just plain fun. This past session was about Isaiah’s prophecy. I won’t get into the details, but somehow we found ourselves talking about “third person”. That, of course led to a brief line from “The Jimmy” episode of Seinfeld, (Jimmy is down!!—anyone else? No…just look it up…funny stuff) but it also got us to talking about how some kids briefly refer to themselves in the third person. Ruby is currently in that stage.
***Note: our class is actually really fun. There’s a WHOLE lot of discussion/debate…which Wooster hates; the discussion part, debating he enjoys. He prefers lecture type. He’s not what you would call a discussion-er. Marci enjoys it.***
Around January or February, Ruby decided to start referring to herself in the third person. Some statements go like this:
“Ruby put shoes on.”
“Ruby go ride in big black truck”
“Ruby no like that!”
It really doesn’t sound like Ruby but rather “Robbie”. She says it so often and at the beginning of sentences, it’s hard for the responder NOT to say “Robbie” back to her. Just like it was hard for the characters, after being around Jimmy, not to talk in third person. She also likes for you to repeat EXACTLY what she is saying or trying to say back to her. She then quietly agrees that the statement that you just said is true or that you got it right.
Just recently she used the pronoun “I” when referring to herself. It was a proud moment for all of us. But, I’ll miss “Robbie” when it’s gone.
“Robbie” is beautiful!