Kiddo finally uttered the awful phrase "I'm bored!" last Saturday. Although the plan in my head for this moment had always been, "well, then, let's do some chores!" I decided to just wing it.
"How exciting!" I replied. "Boredom always comes before you come up with some interesting new thing to do. How will you stop being bored? Oh, but get your sister a drink of water before you figure this out..."
She did not think this was exciting, but did get Babs a drink of water.
"I have something I'd like to do..." she started.
"What's that?"
"Could I watch something?" she cautiously asked. I couldn't restrain myself.
"What a great idea! Babs is right here! You can watch her, she's funny." This made Kiddo laugh, but she didn't want to watch Babs. "The Boy?" I offered, "He's pretty cute..." Then my good husband walked in the door. "Dad!" I called out. "You can watch Dad!"
Once she stopped laughing she said "You know what I want to watch."
"Yes, and I'm going to need you to say it."
I did let her watch TV after all that work she put in to see it.