Three-year-old Subterfuge

[liralen]

"Dad, go upstairs to my room."

"Okay, Jet, I'll go with you."

"No! No. You go up, by yourself. So you don't see me taking the ornaments off the tree."

"What?"

"You go up to my room. I'll play ornaments and put 'em back. Don't worry."

*giggles*

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We'd had a very long discussion, while decorating the tree, that the ornaments weren't for playing with, like toys.

But there was one ornament of a little man on a bike with wings that Genevieve had given Jet when he was a baby that he was dying to play with. We finally figured out that it was just the one, and gave it to him for supervised play. He was great with it, and very gentle after we described how fragile it was.

Comments

[incandescens]

Awwww.

(goes all sentimental)

I'm really pleased he likes it. And that he can play with it. ;)

[archangelbeth]

*dies laughing*

I've met that brand of subterfuge before...

[liralen.livejournal.com]

He does love it, of all the dozens of ornaments that are on that tree, that's the one he was willing to try and trick us for and wanted to just play with more than anything.

You pick great little people gifts. :-)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*grin* I thought it might look familiar. :-)

Both John and I died laughing when he said it, but were pretty firm about the rule until we found it was one and only one ornament he had his eye on.

Whew. I really like this kind of subterfuge compared to the other possibilities.

[incandescens]

That's really great. :) Thanks.

I think I got it when I was visiting Brussels, so . . . tell Jet it's from Belgium.