The other night I was taking Bridget over to her friend’s house to play. It was date night, and we had a babysitting swap. En route my phone rang, and as I was talking I mentioned that I was on my way to “drop Bridget off at her friends house.” The conversation continued for a couple of minutes.

Bridget waited very patiently for me to finish, and when I hung up she very politely, and thoughtfully asked:

B: Mommy?
T: Yea?
B: You gonna drop me off?
T: Yes I am
B: I don’t want you to drop me.
T: Oh, um, well. I won’t really drop you. I’ll just set you down softly. Is that okay?
B: Yea.

It is an interesting thing to have a little person take everything you say so literally — kind of like when daddy got stuck in a meeting.

She is a cute kid.