{"id":2038,"date":"2009-12-22T00:05:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T04:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2009-12-22T00:05:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T04:05:27","slug":"secrets-and-an-almost-3-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=2038","title":{"rendered":"Secrets and an almost 3 year old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday:<\/p>\n<p>Jaia and I were mopping the floor after having cleaned up the last of the rubble that found it&#8217;s way into our living room over the past few weeks while renovating the kitchen. \u00a0While she dunked the mop in the water, I grabbed my favourite (favourite, favourite, favourite) vase to move it from the table and it shattered in my hands. \u00a0And all over the floor. \u00a0And on the couch.<\/p>\n<p>It scared the heck out of both of us. \u00a0She cried. \u00a0I wanted to. \u00a0I loved it. \u00a0But I soldiered on, comforted Jaia who was sad that something actually broke &#8211; whether or not she had anything to do with it &#8211; and then swept up the glass before any of us got hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Today (in the car on the way home):<\/p>\n<p>About halfway Jaia changed the subject from which Christmas carol is her current favourite to last night&#8217;s broken vase incident. \u00a0She asked about a zillion questions about why it broke, whether or not I was sad, what I did with the broken glass, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation continued for a few minutes and then the questions began to change&#8230;&#8221;Will you get a new vase?&#8221; &#8220;Do you want a new vase?&#8221; And then she said what what I thought was &#8220;Daddy and I will buy you a new vase&#8221;, which turned out to be Daddy and I buyed<strong> <\/strong>you a new vase&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Yup, she and Dan went shopping before picking me up to buy me a new vase as a last minute Christmas gift and Jaia spilled the beans. \u00a0I imagine Dan told her it was a secret, but a secret to a 3 year old means that you can say it, just at a whisper. \u00a0And whisper she did.<\/p>\n<p>When I looked at Dan and saw the hilarious look on his face confirming that they did buy me a new vase for Christmas I couldn&#8217;t help but laugh. \u00a0I laughed all the way home, a little through dinner and even now when I think about how adorable that kid is and how proud she was for helping pick out a replacement vase for me.<\/p>\n<p>Sweetest. Kid. Ever. \u00a0But don&#8217;t trust her with a secret. \u00a0You&#8217;ve been warned.<\/p>\n<p>Laughing again&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday: Jaia and I were mopping the floor after having cleaned up the last of the rubble that found it&#8217;s way into our living room over the past few weeks while renovating the kitchen. \u00a0While she dunked the mop in the water, I grabbed my favourite (favourite, favourite, favourite) vase to move it from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}