{"id":4172,"date":"2010-08-17T07:12:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T12:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2010-08-17T07:12:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T12:12:50","slug":"ttt-excuse-me-whats-your-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100817-4172.htm","title":{"rendered":"TTT: Excuse me, What\u2019s Your Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Can anyone watch 3 kids tomorrow without having to take off work?”<\/p>\n

It didn’t take a mind reader to sense the desperation in J the Mom’s brief Facebook status. And so, despite not having seen or talked to anyone in the J family for probably a year, I replied: “I can if you still need somebody. I don’t have any other plans for the day.” If she didn’t mind how long it had been since we’d chatted, I wouldn’t either.<\/p>\n

So I enjoyed a day of play with J the First (age 7), J the Second (age 5), and J the Boy (age 3).<\/p>\n

\"Portrait\"Portrait
\nLeft: Portrait of me by J the First; Right: Portrait of me by J the Second
\nDo I really look as tall as J the First made me? ‘Cause if so, that’s crazy!<\/i><\/div>\n

The kids, having not seen me for quite a while, had probably forgotten entirely about me. If any memories remained of me, my name was not one of them. <\/p>\n

This didn’t bother J the Second or J the Boy, both of whom had no problem calling me “Hey You” or getting my attention some other way. J the First, on the other hand, wanted to call me by my name.<\/p>\n

So we had the following conversation about once every fifteen minutes over the course of the almost ten hours I spent at their house:<\/p>\n

J the First:<\/b> Excuse me. What’s your name?<\/p>\n

Me:<\/b> Rebekah<\/p>\n

J the First:<\/b> Oh yeah. Rebekah?<\/p>\n

And then she’d say whatever she wanted to tell me: <\/p>\n

“Oh yeah. Rebekah? I like having you as our babysitter.”<\/p>\n

“Oh yeah. Rebekah? the Boy just hit the Second.”<\/p>\n

“Oh yeah. Rebekah? do you want to see the glass slipper that was on my birthday cake?”<\/p>\n

And so on and so forth–until J the Mom got back home and was writing a check. <\/p>\n

J the First:<\/b> Excuse me. What’s your name?<\/p>\n

Me:<\/b> Rebekah<\/p>\n

\"Tiny<\/a> J the First:<\/b> Oh yeah, Rebekah?<\/p>\n

J the Mom enjoyed that little exchange–all the more so when I explained that I’d already been enjoying it all day.<\/p>\n

Check out more Tiny Talk Tuesday posts at Not Before 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Can anyone watch 3 kids tomorrow without having to take off work?” It didn’t take a mind reader to sense the desperation in J the Mom’s brief Facebook status. And so, despite not having seen or talked to anyone in the J family for probably a year, I replied: “I can if you still need … Read more TTT: Excuse me, What\u2019s Your Name?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[27],"tags":[131,234],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}