A Conversation With Aspen
SETTING: SEVEN PEAKS WATER PARK, TUESDAY JULY 27TH. 7 PM..
Me: Aspen, will you go down the big slide with me?
Aspen: NO.
Me: Please?
Aspen: NO.
Me: What if I take you to see Pip? (Pip is not a person. Pip is a penguin from the book, “Where is Home, Little Pip?“). (This means Pip is not real). (I figure that the new penguin exhibit at the Living Planet Aquarium will suffice).
Aspen: Okay, I’ll do it.
Me: Great! Go tell Mom what’s going to happen if we go down the slide (thinking she’d say, “We’ll go see Pip!”).
Aspen: We’ll go down the slide, and we’ll TIP OVER AND WE’LL DIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE! (Dramatic hand gestures, followed by her acting out “dying” by falling over in the pool).
20 Minutes later: Aspen went down the slide with us.
We go to see Pip on Friday.
Nobody died, but Jake’s look of complete and utter FEAR going down the big orange slide was a close runner up.
Perhaps she has a future in the theater?
I sure love that little pip. She is something else. I took her to meet her preschool teacher last night, and alllll night she was whining because she wanted to “go to the gas station and see her teacher” (the teacher works p/t @ the gas station).
kids are hilarious and dramatic. They keep life interesting
So adorable- reminds me of my daughter’s dramatics. ;o)