Jonathan gets to go to his auntie Jenny’s for a sleepover today; she’s leaving work early to come pick him up and take him to her house about mid-afternoon. Needless to say, Jonathan has been most excited all week about this. When he woke up this morning, we could hear him say, “Yay! I get to go on my sleepover today!” And then when he was heading for our room to get his morning cuddle, he stopped off at his calendar to double-check, and we heard, “Yep, sleepover’s today”. Then about 7:45 a.m. while Dale was getting ready for work, he said, “Where’s Jonathan?” (I was being cozy in bed still and said I didn’t know.) Dale went out to the living room and found him sitting in a chair by the window; I heard him ask Jonathan what he was doing, and Jonathan said, “Waiting for Jennifer.”
Posted by elizabeth at January 30, 2004 09:26 AMWhat a sweet boy Jonathan is. But I wonder is "waiting for Jennifer" similiar to "Waiting For Godot?"
Posted by: Auntie Rita on January 30, 2004 04:45 PMI confess to never having read the play "Waiting for Godot" or frankly even knowing what it's about (except that the person they're waiting for never shows up, and possibly "Godot" might be "God"), but I did have that in mind when I used that as the title of the entry. But I don't think Jonathan's familiar with that work yet, and it truly was exactly what he said.
Oh, our house did feel so empty when Jennifer drove away with him this afternoon!
Posted by: Moi on January 30, 2004 05:35 PMIn truth when I got to the final line of your entry I teared a bit.
Posted by: Auntie Rita on January 30, 2004 06:31 PMI'm will to wager he didn't wait all morning in that same chair for Jenny to arrive for his sleepover!
Posted by: Theresa on January 30, 2004 07:33 PMCertainly true that he did not wait there all day, but her arrival was never, ever far from his mind. And when she did arrive about 2:45 p.m., he was so overwhelmed and awed by her actual presence in the flesh after having anticipated it all day (hell, all week) that he was a little too shy (for about all of ten seconds) to even give her a cuddle! (Once explicitly invited to do so, of course then he did.)
Posted by: Moi on January 31, 2004 12:38 AM