Eva's afterschool special...

It's been beautiful here the past few days...like 65 degrees. I took the girls out to the park the other day to play. Eventually a couple of boys came, they were around 3 or 4 years old, the started telling the girls, "This is our castle, you can't play here" just stupid kid stuff, I just ignored it and let the girls deal with it however they want...well non-violent hopefully..I think I've at least taught them that.
Eva is pretty sensitive so she decided to have her little 2 year old sister be the muscle. She told Elle to tell them to "GO AWAY" and "NO!" It was pretty funny seeing Elle's little body come up with these full on screams and get into this little boys face...and Eva standing behind her with her arms crossed like, "yeah, that's my sister, what are you going to do about it?!"
The boys didn't back down and eventually Eva's feelings were hurt. I told her "You're six years old, are you really going to let a little 3 year old tell you what you can't play with? This isn't his playground, he can't tell you to leave, go play."
I guess in translation, that meant to Eva to go up to him and push him. It was pretty funny. I laughed out loud...then I told her she doesn't need to push and be mean to get her point across. So she went under the play structure to pout with Elle.
During this the little boys friend left and he was all alone.
I told Eva, go ask him if he wants to play, just because he's mean doesn't mean that you have to be.
Eva said, "He's RUDE why would I play with him?"
Good point.
He eventually went to where the girls were, just standing there and Eva proceeded to tell him this:
(this is word for word...I'm not even joking)
Eva: "Listen kid, I get it, I was three once too and I was always telling people, "you can't play here" and stuff like that, I was clumsy too (Eva translation:mean) and you know what? I got bigger and I want to share now. I want to be nice to people. I'm not three anymore and you don't have to be rude."
(just to clarify, Eva was an angel and still is...she's the easiest kid on earth and completely non-confrontational...she has never been out right mean to any child for no reason)
I couldn't believe she said all of this. I was so proud of her trying to relate and then coming back with her point...is she 50? It was also hilarious to listen to her reason with this stupid little kid.
She's such a good girl. I'm so proud of her and the choices that she's making.

And just to be clear...this little boy is totally rude, he's a brat and none of the moms like him, he's headed down a lonely path to being a bully. I'm pretty sure he'll be on Bully Beatdown in the future.