“Daddy, I’m still sad.”
“Are you sad that I wasn’t happy with you earlier? For not listening?”
“Yeah.”
“Aww, sweetie. I’m not upset anymore. You know you’re one of my favorite people, right?”
“oh, well mommy’s my favorite.”
Huh
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To my daughter,
It’s Janice from the Muppet Show, not Jasmine from the Muppet Show.
It’s Valentines Day, not Valengivingtines Day.
I am observant, not verdent.
Just so you know.
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Me: Where are you going?
Eldest: I’m running away on vacation.
Me: Oh.
Youngest: Blahblahblahblahblah! (I’m not being flippant, she really sounds that way)
Me: Are you going to run away upstairs to your room?
Eldest: No, I’m going to run away to underneath the highchair.
Me: Good luck with that.
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So I don’t know much about football. I really don’t. I never really paid attention growing up and it just ended up not being my thing.
That changed(-ish) when I met my wife, who likes football. Little by little I was exposed to football. Not that I understood anything about what I was seeing, but I was seeing it more. And somehow that was important to our relationship.
Fast-forward several years. We now have a child who is old enough to really interact with us. And lo and behold, she likes watching Packer Football.
The thing is, I don’t really think that she understands much more of what’s going on than I do. Let me give you an example. I was sitting in the dining room eating a quick dinner after bathing our youngest. My wife and eldest daughter were sitting in the TV room watching the Super Bowl. Every few seconds I’d hear:
Wife: GO GO GO GO!
Child: (a small but noticeable number of seconds later) GO GO GO GO!
Wife: STOP HIM STOP HIM STOP HIM!
Child: (again, a bit of a delay) STOP HIM STOP HIM!
And so it goes.
On the other hand, I walked down stairs and I was greeted by this synopsis, “Daddy! The man in the black shirt threw the ball to the man in the green shirt and then we scored a touchdown!”
Maybe she does understand a bit more than me about football.
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I realized that I hadn’t posted about this. No, we’re not kidding.
Sometime in August, in case you’re curious.
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