This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Family Conversations, Part 12
Aug
12
2010
Secrets
My wife was sitting at the computer. She saw me walk in and asked “Do you want me to check your email for you?”
It was a helpful gesture, but she had never asked that before so I had a somewhat surprised look on my face.
Before I could give an answer, she responded to my puzzlement with “What? you didn’t want me to do that? Why not? What are you hiding from me?” which was meant in a humorous, not suspicious, manner.
We both heard Alpha pipe up from the other room: “chocolate!”
which is funny because I don’t recall ever having hidden any chocolate from my wife, let alone telling Alpha about it.
Cheese
After dinner, Alpha came running into the living room – “Dadda, Gamma made a mess!”
Sure enough, Gamma, who was secured in his high chair because he was still finishing his meal, had dumped Parmesan cheese on his tray and on the floor.
Quite a mess.
But wait, the Parmesan cheese wasn’t anywhere near Gamma when I left the table. And he can’t open the top either.
Me: “Alpha, how did he get the cheese?”
“I gave it to him.”
“And did you open the top for him too?”
“Yes”
“Then go get the broom and dustpan and sweep it up.”
The kids sure are good at trying to get the other one in trouble.
He said to him, “Far from it, you shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. So why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so!”
1 Samuel 20:2
