“Go ask Daddy! Ask him!”
“No, you ask!”
The sounds of whispered excitement of a back forth on who would ask, an apparently, very important question of Daddy was going on between D-man and Mamacita. The continuted negotiation floated into the hallway outside the bathroom door. Mike and I stood there wondering what they needed that caused so much decision making. And usually when you hear whispers of a plan hatching as a parent you begin to wonder what chaos may be waiting to unfold.
But we only needed to wait a minute longer before we knew was all the whispered commotion was about. From the kitchen came running D-man, with his eyes big he looked at Mike’s toolbox which was sitting out from the work he was doing on the bathroom. Turns out his question didn’t cause chaos but a level of sweetness that melted both of our hearts.
He looked around the toolbox and then up at his Daddy, took a big breath, and asked in a very serious manner…
“Daddy, can we use your sonic screwdriver? Please?”
Mike smiled and answered him back:
“Buddy, I don’t have one, it’s Doctor Who on TV who has a sonic screwdriver not Daddy.”
D-man looked confused and said “But Daddy you can do anything. And you can fix anything. If Doctor Who have a sonic screwdriver than you do too!”
It was too sweet. He was so earnest in his belief of a hidden sonic screwdriver & in his belief that Daddy can do anything.
Mike bent down to his level, with a huge smile and explained it doesn’t work that way. But D-man was very, very confused by the whole thing now because in his mind Daddy is bigger than Doctor Who. And if Doctor Who gets to have a sonic screwdriver than it only makes sense Daddy would too.
D-man walked to the kitchen table where his big sister waited for the news. We listened as he told her what had happened. Mamacita shared his confusion,she couldn’t believe it either. And we heard her say to him “That doesn’t make any sense! Not at all, because if anyone should have a sonic screwdriver it’s OUR Daddy. He can do anything!”
And BOOM! The sweetness multiplied.
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