16 June 2007

In Which Freya Uses Her Amazing Two-Year-Old Logic On Me

The girls were making art this morning, an activity that takes place at least several times a day. It was only 6:47. I wasn't really awake. There hadn't even been any coffee yet. I was reading blogs.

Completely without me seeing her, Freya stuck a couple dozen ladybug stickers to the kitchen table.

Eventually, I noticed them: "Freya, you need to take those off the table. We don't stick stickers on the table."

Freya: "But Mom, they're decorations. Decorations are good."

Me: "Please take them off, I don't want my table decorated."

(pause)

Freya: (with two handed back-off gesture) "Okay, I will take half of them off."

2 comments:

J. A. Blackburn said...

isn't it amazing how quickly they learn to negotiate, and how to wear you down, and how to creatively get their way? (and by "amazing" I mean SCARY!)

Brillig said...

hahahahaha! That's great! What a little negotiator!