Fairy water and jogging

8.30pm:

Sophia: Mummy, can I make fairy water?

Me: Yes, after Anjali plays her piano

Sophia: Please. i want to make fairy water.

Anjali settled in the piano with husband and I took a tub out for fairy water.

Sophia: I want to do fairy water in the hall

Me: No. Water play is in the bathroom only

Sophia: But the bathroom is so wet!

Me: thats kind of the point. I am going to hunt up stuff too put in fairy water and you tell me when you are ready.

Sophia (with an expression of self sacrifice): I am eady to make fairy water in the bathroom.

Anjali finished her piano and the girls played a while putting bottle caps and marker caps and beads in the water

8.45pm

Husband: I am going jogging

Anjali: Can I go with you?

Me: Your bedtime is in half an hour

Anjali: Please, can I go.

Husband: I will run very fast Anjali

Anjali: Its ok. I can take my kick scooter and go with you

Sophia: No!! Anjali, dont go jogging.

Me: Do you also want to go jogging

Sophia: Anjali, dont go jogging.

Me: Sophia, what do you want?

Sophia: Mummy sniff, mummy sniff, I want to go jogging but I want to finish the fairy water first.

Me: Ok, let Anjali and daddy go first and then when they come back they will take you again.

I was, of course secretly hoping that she would forget about this and then we could send her to bed. I should have known better after five years of parenting.

Anjali and husband left for jogging. Sophia and I played with the fairy water, made fairy dust, put fairy spells on each other, and then played dress up (with Sophia wearing my old shirt as a dress and a sash around it) and drank vanilla milk shake



9.15pm:


Anjali came back with husband. The girls began to play and at some point began to take out brooms from the closet to sweep the floor.

Me: Its bedtime.

Sophia: But I want to go jogging.

Me: There is no bicycle tomorrow. You have to wake up early.

Sophia: But you said that I could go jogging and you are not taking me. You said...

There was nothing for it.

Me: Can you take her for a quick round the playground?

Anjali: Wait, I will get my water bottle and come.

Sophia: You said you will take me jogging

Me: I never said that i will take you jogging. I have never jogged in my entire life.

Sophia has the sense to look rather mollified. But

Sophia: You said htat daddy will take me jogging,,,

Me: i know what I said, now change and go.

And they went