A Laptop Crashes the Ceremony

Daniel eagerly recruited me to come downstairs with him this morning, since it was Saturday morning. After that, he recruited Ian for the same downstairs-marching convoy; Ian was busy, so we waited for him in the upstairs hall until he was ready to descend with us in formation. But I flouted protocol much more than I had intended, by grabbing my laptop and carrying it with me down the stairs. Apparently, this gave Daniel the impression that I was getting up to spend time doing something other than the important agenda that Daniel had worked out:

"Daddy, I didn't say we could go downstairs so you could work... "

But then, he semi-relented: "Maybe after we play, you could work."

(October 22, 2011)