Saturday, February 28, 2009

From the Mouth of Pegs

First, the setup: Sofia, Pegs and I were all hanging out on the bed, which inevitably meant that Sofia reached for my blackberry and started playing with it. Usually she likes to push the buttons and watch the screen light up, but today she was more intent on talking talking talking. At one point she handed me the blackberry, so I decided to play along and began pretending to converse with someone on the other line. Every once in a while I'd hand the phone back to Sofia, who would excitedly say something into the phone and then promptly hand it back to me. We did this a few times before Pegs started getting a look of concern on her face. "Don't tease her, hon," she said. "She thinks that she's really talking to someone." I pretend to talk with Sofia on her play phones all the time, so I wasn't really clear on how talking on my blackberry was any different, but just in case Pegs was right I "ended" the call. I wrapped up my faux-conversation, said "bye bye" into the phone and then handed it back to Sofia. The Hybrid was staring into its dark screen dejectedly, clearly unhappy that the conversation was over, and that's when Pegs said:

Pegs: Sofia, Daddy will always disappoint you.

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