Tess has started what now feels like a ritual at our house. Most nights during dinner, she turns to Eric and tells him, "Daddy tell me about work that you go to."
Eric then tries to describe his day in language that Tess will understand. (When he slips in a story for my behalf, Tess gets irritated and repeats her question until he gets back on track.) Usually this involves listing the people that Eric has talked with, and sometimes Eric will add in other details or visuals to try and make it interesting.
The comical result of this is that Tess now knows all of Eric's colleagues' names, and she considers herself part of the clan.
"Dina and Shenaz are girls. And I am a girl," she'll tell me. And when she got a new Easter dress, she wanted Eric to take her picture in it and show it to Dina and Shenaz. And then the next day, she also wanted to make sure that Joe, and Steve, and Mike saw it, too. "They will really like it!" she assured Eric.
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