There aren’t actually any naked Daddy’s in this post. This is ChildWild’s first ever guest post, writting by my much adored and long-suffering husband. The title is his, as is the tale.
Reason #4769 why I married this man: after writing this, he came home and folded a pile of laundry the size of a baby elephant. We all have sweaters again! And socks! Love.
Rio [white-faced and blue-lipped from bike trailer ride without sweater]: I am not going to play outside, Daddy [at kindergarten dropoff, morning choice]
Teacher: Rio, aren’t you cold without a sweater?
Rio: I couldn’t find a sweater this morning.
Teacher: Hm, somehow I find that hard to believe…
Rio: Well…
Daddy: (Uh-oh…)
Rio: … I went down to the kitchen wearing only my shirt and socks and said “Daddy, is it OK to go to school like this?”, and he said “No”, so I went through my clothes box in the changing table and got a pair of pants and went upstairs to get a sweater, but I looked aaaall over the laundry pile and there was nothing there, and then I looked in all my drawers but there were only two sweaters, one that didn’t fit me and another which was only for the summer.
Daddy: (Swallow me Earth. Worst Dad ever…)
Teacher [uncomfortably entangled in our dirty laundry...]: Oh.
Remind me never to forget to have her school clothes ready the night before…
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I reviewed the new Sesame Street iPhone app over at Strollerderby yesteday. I think my sweetie put it well when he looked over my shoulder and said, “I cannot imagine anything less interesting.”
But we’re adults. This thing is toddler crack. Serena was ready to give new meaning to the phrase “killer app” by murdering her sister over whose turn it was to hold the device.
After I’d confiscated their toy my phone, I “interviewed” Rio about the game. This is what she said:
Me: Did you like the Sesame Street game?
Rio: Yes!
Me: What did you like about it?
Rio: You tip the phone and make food. I just liked it.
Me: Would you recommend it to other kids?
Rio: NO! I would not reco…um…rec…um…no.
Me: Why not?
Rio: Because they would not share.
She went on at some length about how some two-year-olds, and she’s not naming any names, do not know how to share iPhone games and absolutely cannot be trusted to play them. But, she allowed as how some five-year-olds are very good with iPhone games and incidentally she is free tomorrow afternoon if, and I quote, “You want to make it your choice sometime to go to the cafe and have quiet work time, I could go with you to the cafe and that would be a good time for me to play that Sesame Street game on your phone. I am free tomorrow to do that.”
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rio
