Oh No He Didn’t
Little No Limit sits at the table. She is cutting paper, a popular activity for her. She moves to brush a strip of paper off the table and inadvertently knocks her pen down to the floor.
“Uh!” She exclaims. Then she looks at her dad with her lips protruded and anxiety inked all over her big brown eyes and says, “Daddy – pick that up.”
“Excuse me,” I said. “That is not how you talk to Daddy.”
She turns her eyes to Husband, lips protruding even more, maybe even a little tremble, and Husband laughs. “Oh, she just wants a little help.”
He walks over, picks up the pen, and hands it to her. I feel like he might have called her Princess too. She snatches the pen back, and without so much as a thank you, continues cutting paper.
I am about to say something, but Husband chuckled at that moment. Chuckled at this… this… behavior, and then looked at me and said, “Who knew when I married one, I’d get two?”
“That was, uh, so not cool.” At which point, I knocked something on the floor, looked at him, and added, “Pick that up.”
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My poor husband gets that, too.
Our poor long-suffering menfolk….
That is too funny. I once complained to a friend about my husband playing the electric guitar (unplugged) while I am watching TV. He thinks that because is is unplugged it isn’t still noisy. It IS. I made some comment about how you’d think after 20 years of marriage, he would know it bothered me and he wouldn’t do it anymore. She just looked at me and said, “You’d think after 20 years of marriage, you’d know he wasn’t going to stop.” I had one of those blinky-eyed, cricket chirping moments. It was pretty funny.
Not really related to your story but it reminded me of that one, nonetheless.
I think you said the right thing. Isabella (3) demands things all the time and I usually don’t say anything. Kids need to learn however that they’ll be respected and answered in life more successfully if they say please etc. Sometimes I forget no one else is telling them that! Plus I am daddy so what do I care if they say please or not
I DO live in your world!
Did he say, “Yes, my empress” when he picked up what you dropped?
LOL! Whenever my husband accuses one of our girls of acting just like me, I try and do a real obvious happy dance
I’m trying to teach my “princess” not to do exactly this! If it were up to her, she would have a palace FULL of people to do her bidding. I think I’m pretty well inoculated against pouty little sad faces by now.
Sorry..I have to go pick up my little angel’s fallen pen now….be right there sweetie!