Brett recently had a birthday and the girls and I were very excited to give him The Office on DVD. We had everything wrapped and they were doing well at keeping the secret until one Thursday night at dinner Brett asked, "is there a new episode of The Office on tonight?"
Saige spoke right up and said, "Hey Mom, remember Dad's birthday present?"
Brett got a big smile on his face and asked, "what is is?"
Madi said, "we'll NEVER tell"!
This is extra funny because of what happened around Christmas time. Amazon was having a really good sale on their games right after Thanksgiving. I bought the game Blokus for Brett because I knew that he liked it. The girls and I wrapped it and put it under the tree.
A few days before Christmas, Brett took the girls to Target and to pick out something for me. They wandered the aisles for awhile and came up on the games and toys. Brett picked up Blokus from off of the bottom shelf, held it up and said, "how about this one?"
Madi got a sick look on her face and said, "No. You can't dad."
"Why not?"
"Because you just can't"
"But mom likes this game-why can't we get it for her?"
"I can't tell, but you just can't. Because... because... because...we got it for you and we already wrapped it."
Brett said that you could see it in her eyes that she was struggling with the decision to tell him or not because she had promised me that she wouldn't tell him what his present was.
So, if you have a big secret, think twice before telling these two. They will have good intentions of keeping it but sometimes when you are 5 you let it out accidentally!
2 comments:
Ha ha that is awesome. They are too cute. How many seasons of the Office did you get him? I LOVE THE OFFICE. Tom just recently bought me another season so we have 1-4 now. LOVE IT.
A five year old can only keep a secret for soooo long. It sounds like Madi tried really hard to keep the secret - I think her Dad was pumping her a little bit.
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