My 7-er has a habit of relating her day in a very matter-of-fact way. She acts out the exact emotion and gesture, but does not embellish anything herself.
Last week, she comes up with a gem : "Blake and Jasmine have selected Noah and Michael as their bodyguards. So now if anybody wants to speak to Blake or Jasmine, we need to ask the bodyguards, they check with the girls, and then allow us to speak to them".
This felt hilarious to me, and I kept digging - are they paid anything for this 'job'? No. Did they ask to be bodyguards? No. But they are doing their job nicely? Yup. How come other girls, like you, don't have a bodyguard? Well, I'm not as pretty as them.
That last struck me, and she glances at me and says - "Yeah, I know, you'll say I am, that I'm the prettiest girl in the world, but really Dad, others don't think so." You could have knocked me down with feather, but didn't have anything to say to her.
The next day, she says - I feel sorry for Noah and Michael. They can't do anything, play anything. They just have to wait around the two girls, carrying their bags and following orders !
And two days later, she' back with more - Noah and Michael have quit their jobs. They don't see any value it.. Yippee for male liberation
!!
Now I ask her regularly when she's getting her own bodyguards...
Last week, she comes up with a gem : "Blake and Jasmine have selected Noah and Michael as their bodyguards. So now if anybody wants to speak to Blake or Jasmine, we need to ask the bodyguards, they check with the girls, and then allow us to speak to them".
This felt hilarious to me, and I kept digging - are they paid anything for this 'job'? No. Did they ask to be bodyguards? No. But they are doing their job nicely? Yup. How come other girls, like you, don't have a bodyguard? Well, I'm not as pretty as them.
That last struck me, and she glances at me and says - "Yeah, I know, you'll say I am, that I'm the prettiest girl in the world, but really Dad, others don't think so." You could have knocked me down with feather, but didn't have anything to say to her.
The next day, she says - I feel sorry for Noah and Michael. They can't do anything, play anything. They just have to wait around the two girls, carrying their bags and following orders !
And two days later, she' back with more - Noah and Michael have quit their jobs. They don't see any value it.. Yippee for male liberation
!!Now I ask her regularly when she's getting her own bodyguards...
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