Tuesday, March 18, 2008

soft spot

she fell and ripped her tights. i offered to mend them (with a heart, a flower, a bird, a princess...). she said she would think about it. then came back to say she'd changed her mind about the mending... because she discovered that right there, where the hole is, there is a very very very soft spot of skin. and if i fix the tights, she says, she won't be able to feel the very very very soft spot anymore.

a few times a day, she walks up to me:
'mama, do you want to feel my soft spot?'
'yes, darling, i do'
'...soft, he!'
'yes, my sweet, very soft... you have no idea how soft...'

1 comment:

Pauline said...

For some of us it's on the heel. For others, on the knee. But most often, it's right there in the stomach...