Negotiating with a Princess

Monday, March 13, 2017

I think this picture pretty much sums up the dynamic at my house. We are living (and loving) life with a 2 year old. She is developing such a sophisticated sense of humor, it is unreal. Tonight, I asked her to come get in my lap to snuggle. I even tried to lure her with games on my phone. But she being the little stinker she is went right over to Jeremy and climbed up in his lap. Then she turned to him and asked him to play games on his phone. What she did not anticipate was that Jeremy didn’t have his phone. She was stuck!

But this is Selah june we’re talking about. Within a couple seconds, she was climbing down from his lap and asking in the most sheepish voice possible for my phone. Of course, I yelled “what??!!!?? Are you kidding me right now??” She said “your phone??” and grinned up at me.

When I didn’t readily relent, she moved to the next strategy. Somehow she found a dollar somewhere and sidled back up to me. “I buy your phone?”

“What??!!??” I yelled.

“Here…” and she traded the dollar for my phone.

But then she realized she didn’t have her money anymore. Buyer’s remorse.

So we spent the next few minutes trading back and forth over and over again until she finally weazeled away from me both my phone and the money.

Were in trouble.