Me: Can you guys please clean off the table? We're going to be eating dinner soon.
Them: (grumbling but cleaning and then leaving the room.)
Princess 5yo: Hey! Daddy, where is the big black Lego horse.
Him: (Stopping everything to do her bidding and digging through the Lego bin) Here it is beautiful!
Princess 5yo: And where is the white one?
Him: (Again, stopping what he was doing, finding the horse and presenting to her): Here it is!
Me: And do you want the blue one and the pink one? Because apparently Daddy has forgotten that we're picking up...
Her: (Ignoring me.) Thank you daddy.
Her: (Walking out of the room, leaving both horses behind on the just-cleaned table.)
Him: (5 minutes later, noticing the horses) It's funny that she HAD to have these horses and then she just left them here. But you know that if I put them away she will be in this room within 30 seconds looking for them.
Me: Yep.
Him: (Putting the horses away.)
EXACTLY 8 seconds later...
Princess 5yo: HEY! What happened to my horses?!?!
Him:( laughing) Do I know my girl?
Yay...another thing to look foward to. I suspect both my girls will be proficient at this by the time they are able to give me the death glare...
Posted by: Lostonthemtns | January 09, 2012 at 11:56 AM
cute!
Posted by: Jim W. | January 09, 2012 at 01:43 PM
haha that is so cute and so true!
Posted by: Kerry B | January 09, 2012 at 08:40 PM
I hate to admit this, but I'm going to be 10 times worse when my daughter is just a little bit older...
Posted by: John | January 10, 2012 at 09:38 AM
Your family makes me laugh laugh LAUGH sometimes. I'll try to relate a similar story from my own youth. My Dad and I had a contentious relationship at best when I was a kid. But I loved to watch him shave. So I was about ten years old, watching him at the mirror and he says casually, "Here, I have a note for you" and he hands it to me. And just as I'm about to open it, he says "wait. Open it in a minute."
So the whole rest of the shave is me asking "now? now?" and him saying "no no".
Finally, he seems to be done. He rinses off and puts away his stuff. But, "Dad, you missed a spot." So he goes back and does that, THEN , he lets me open the note, which says something like
"I am about to leave off a spot when I shave. You are going to tell me about it just after I rinse my face and put away the towel".
Posted by: Jessie Powell | January 10, 2012 at 12:19 PM
A father who knows his child! Awesome.
Posted by: A Morning Grouch | January 10, 2012 at 04:37 PM