Chatting with an Angel Girl
For a long time, I’ve only FaceTimed with Angel Boy 2.0, but lately this titian-haired Angel Girl grabs the phone from him and runs away with it.
“Me Grandma, MEEEE Grandma!”
An explosion of epic proportions ensued until there was a conversation about sharing Grandma. That was an agreed upon solution to end the dilemma. I also simply hung up, and that was effective, too.
This time, it was Angel Girl 2.0 who called…
Daddy prompts her…
“Tell Grandma what your favorite animal is, Char!”
“Chimpanzee! Chimpanzee! Chimpanzeeeeee!”
Always the supportive Grandma, I reply, “That’s awesome, Char! That’s a very difficult but fun word to say.“
Hey, Char, what’s your favorite COLOR?”
“Chimpanzee! Chimpanzee! Chimpanzeeeeee!”
(Hmmm, seems like we went from genius IQ of 200+ to a normally bright twenty-month-old in a split second.)
“Show Grandma, show Grandma!”
Says Mom, “She wants to show you a green ball.”
“I like your green ball. What color is the ball, Char?”
“CHIMPANZEEEEE”
OK, I definitely see where this is going.
“What’s TeeTee doing?“
I hear him…“My turn! I want Grandma SHARE GRANDMA! MY TURN!”
“Grammy? Show me the transformer again. When are you sending it?”
“First, tell me what did you eat for dinner, T?”
“PIZZA!”
“Was it a kale pizza?”
“NO, Grandma (laughing), you always ask me that.”
“Grammy, look at Char. She wants you to see her jump.”
“JUMPING!”
“Me show Grandma JUMP!”
“That is such a great jump, Char! I’m so proud of you!”
Then T says, “I’m going to jump over you, Char. DON’T MOVE.”
Oh no, this could be a disaster. But it wasn’t. It was a successful jump, but no more of that, I said.
“Where did you go today, Char?”
“CHIMPANZEEE!!!”
I knew they had gone to the park and the beach, but chimpanzee is clearly a favorite new word so there was no way I could disagree with THAT.
This call lasted for about thirty minutes while I was passed back and forth.
Finally, Mom said, “Say goodbye to Grandma, it’s bath time!”
And then from AB 2.0, “I’m going to hit the red button now, Grandma!”
And they’re gone, taking the sun and moon and stars and my heart with them.
