We're so Selfish....

Last night we invited a Priest friend of my husband over to watch Lost with us. John, who is four, is fascinated with Priests. He can also talk more than any other child I know, so we prepared him a little before hand.

My husband told him that Daddy was having a friend over and was coming to talk with Daddy, not to play with John. We told John that he could show the Priest his room and hang out with us quietly for a bit before bed, but other than that he needed to remember that this was Daddy's friend and he had come to spend time with Daddy.

Once the Priest arrived, we set John up in the computer room and let him watch a DVD on the computer, while we all plopped down in from of the TV to watch all the pre-"stuff" that came on prior to the last episode of Lost.

Literally within seconds, and every five minutes thereafter, John came in the room to ask the Priest a very pressing question or to show him something critically important. It was extremely cute and endearing, but since John can talk and talk and talk (and talk and talk), we let him know that he needed to go back and finish watching his show and stop coming in.

Finally bed time arrived. As I am tucking him in he looks up at me with these sad, pitiful eyes and says, "You and daddy are so selfish. You've been playing with Father all night long and I haven't gotten to play with him at all. You guys are being so selfish!"

Point taken kiddo.

So we let him stay up an extra 10 minutes and "play" with his new friend. Thankfully, the Good Father was willing to play along! (Of course, the fact that we had a DVR was also a big help.)