The One Where My Daughter Schools Me On GameFly

We let my 6yo … is she really 6? I still think of her as 5, probably because she’s still in Kindergarten for a few more days….

But she says to me, “Mom” she says, “you have to watch me play this Chihuahua game on the Wii – it’s amazing and has a trampoline and a poodle and the big dog and it’s really hard but it’s soooooo fun”

She said this days ago and has been repeating herself ever since. I took it in stride the first fifty times and then started to threaten to throw away the Wii if she actually said the word Chihuahua one more time. So now she’s calling it the trampoline game. Fine.

This morning she started in talking about this darn game again and I looked at  my husband and said (jokingly) “If they’re going to be this into video games we need to get an Xbox360 and Call of Duty so they can play something I’d actually like to watch.”

Yes, I like watching people play those games. Action, aim, easter eggs…it’s a good spectator sport. What? You prefer golf? Didn’t think so!

Plus, I could play with them and might actually have a chance to kick some butt – since it’s Kindergarten butt and kids don’t peak at game play until, what, 9….10… I’d have a few good “GOTCHA!” years before that happened. Plus, I’m sure fragging your kids is great stress relief.

I wouldn’t really do it, let a mom dream, sheesh.

So my daughter looks at me after I suggest this to my husband and says, “If you get me an Xbox360 I’d get some games for it and then play them.” I say, “What are you going to buy those games with, your good looks?” “Noooo Mommm (said in that totally exasperated way your kids say things like that to you) with my money.”

“How many games do you think your piggy bank money will buy you? Four? Five?”

“Well mom, you know there’s GameFly – it’s a thing where you pay them a little every month and you can have a game and then send it back and get a new game and you don’t have to spend so much.”

I’m staring at her all slack-jawed-yokel style because all I can think is, “Where the heck did she see a GameFly commercial??”

While I’m staring at her like my brain just broke – because it did – she follows up with, “It’s okay mommy, you can think about it for a little bit and let me know.”

I nod and then look at my husband with a look that feels like horror but he starts laughing so I’m guessing I’m still in slack-jawed-yokel mode.

Wow, kid. A+ for recall…and salesmanship…by the time I finally got it together and choked out, “We’re not getting an Xbox360″ she was already mentally off of the subject and looked at me like, “Oh, hey, were you saying something?”

Oh yeah, that’s me…mamma brinin’ the hammer down! More like sputtering shocked mama smacking you with a light and fluffy feather.

Even though I totally threw down at the end with my lame no Xbox ruling, I’m pretty sure the pressure will be back on soon. Unless she magically sees the commercial that tells her GameFly has Wii games. In which case I am pretty much out of luck.

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