A little love

I think I fell a little in love today. She's four-years old, her favourite letter is "C" and she parked her butt in my lap all morning to colour and "help" me after I made her an origami frog and we became friends.

She bounced into the office with her dad today, but after discovering there were strangers in her midst, she clung shyly to his leg. She hid in his office practising printing her alphabet until she was sent to "help" her dad by bringing me some paperwork. I was ready.

    "Hey there, thanks! Hey, I'm making something for you. Do you know what it is?"
    She shook her head shyly, but didn't retreat.
    "It's going to be an animal. What animal makes the sound 'ribbit'?"
    "A fwog."
    "That's it!"

So I presented her with my creation. After I showed her how to make it hop, she was ecstatic. She'd run off to show her dad but came back shortly after.

She loved helping by running things back and forth between offices. There was once she ran so fast she tripped over herself and fell--only to look up from the floor at me to grin a 10,000 kilowatt grin before getting up to run off again. She helped me crease the folds in letters, stick stamps on envelopes. After she'd run out of things to help me with, I asked her,

    "Do you want to get your colouring and come colour with me?"
    "Yes!"

And off she ran to get her things from her dad's office. I proceeded to clear a little spot at my desk for her to sit at and was about to get up to get her a chair when she'd returned...to climb right up into my lap.

*sigh*

And so she sat there happily drawing the rest of the morning away while I (tried) worked around her. At the end of her time at the office, her dad asked her to give everyone goodbye hugs before leaving, but she was too excited and ran out the door,

    "I'm going to see the Raptors game!"

Watching her little figure retreat down the hallway to the elevators, I fell a little in love today.