Took L to New York to have a voice lesson with P. Afterward we met his girlfriend (E) for pizza. P and I told the old standard "cute little brother" story about the time L had been playing starwars with P...
Wow - come to think of it - L learned how to talk early. We lived in a specific apartment for 1 year which is why I can place his age so well. We always say L was three years old when this story happened, and he may have been, but he was barely three. We moved out of this apartment in July and P left for his summer trip in June.... So, I can fix pretty exactly the latest date in which this exchange could have happened.
The anecdote goes that L and P were playing Starwars and at a certain point L delivered the key line from the fight scene between Skywalker and Vader, "Luke, I am your papa." At least that was this adorable 2-3 year old's version of this dialogue.
The point of this story is that we were joking about how we always tell this story because it's just too cute and L said something about how we tell it to "all of P's girlfriends." Ha ha. L is oblivious, but I think I detect a micro-expression flit across the face of current girlfriend. Sigh... I said, "We tell that anecdote to everyone who comes into our lives."
In the metro station, as we head toward home, I told L he could do his brother a big favor by never saying things like, "We tell that story to ALL of his girlfriends." He was painfully cute because the sudden understanding on his face was so evident. I said not to worry, that unless P and E broke up that very day there was no harm done (God forbid).... but for the future...
out of the mouths of babes ...
ReplyDelete... you know that you really should be posting photos with these pieces ... I would like an image served up each time you mention the peeps that I love (thank you very much!)
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