Daddy Words

When I walk into the house after not seeing my girls all day, they are of course, very excited and wish to tell me all about their day. Now mind you, they want to tell me in the span of 14.6 seconds so I have to listen very carefully. We sit down to eat dinner and I just want to hear the first 2 news stories because I've determined that everything after that is repeat news from the previous day. I would hope that my girls could accommodate me in this little way but of course, that is expecting too much from an almost 3 year old and a 4 year old going on 30. I shall now paraphrase how this evening went. For simplicity's sake, assume the following: BGP = big girl princess (aka oldest daughter), LGP = little girl princess (aka middle daughter), TGP = tiny girl princess (aka my baby girl).


ME: "How'd your day go honey?"

BGP: "OH DADDY I -"

LGP: "ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH"

MRS: "Fine not much other than the doctor's appointment."

ME: "How did that -"

LGP: "DAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY"

TGP: "WAAAAAAAAAAAH"

MRS: "Boy! She (TGP) is really enjoying that broccoli"

ME: "Girls please be quiet, daddy wants to hear this news stor-"

BGP & LGP: [Giggles and food munching]

BGP: "DADDY TODAY I ATE LUNCH"

ME: "I'm glad you did... can daddy just lis-"

LGP: "WHAT'S WONG WID WYDIA'S CWADUHHHHL"

TGP: "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM"

ME: "Nothing baby, Daddy is fixing it... can Daddy just please li-"

BGP: "Be quiet [to LGP]. I'm trying to watch tv. It's Important! Yes. Yes it was a bad day. Something happened there. And over there. And other stuff happened too... [Glances toward me] Look at me - I'm using daddy words."

The TV quietly switched to recaps of yesterday's news. If you know what the top two news stories were on 6/18/2008, other than Tim Russert's Funeral, Iraq, the election, Mid-western flooding, diabetes, fuel prices, our suck-ass economy or the Bush Administration - please let me know.