“Look! It’s The Man!”
I really need to blog more about all the funny things Madeline does. Three-year-olds are so hilarious. So for the past couple of weeks our landlord’s handyman has been working to reinforce the mortar around all the bricks on our house. It really needs it — during a recent wind storm, a couple of bricks came flying off the house!
Madeline is fascinated by the handyman. The very first day he was out there working, Madeline asked me who was out there and what he was doing. I was probably in the middle of something when she asked so I tried to see if she would be easily satisfied by saying something like, “I don’t really know. It’s just a man who is fixing our house.”
Ever since then (despite my attempts to the contrary), Madeline has taken to calling him “The Man.” Relatively early in the morning she looks out the windows and listens to see if she can hear him working. She usually shouts out, “Look! I see The Man!” or “That sounds like The Man!” On the days he is working, she loves looking out our windows and asking him as many times as he will answer, “What are you doing?” And of course when we leave to go somewhere she has to chat it up with him and tell him where we are going or what we are doing that day.
At least he doesn’t seem to mind it too much — he has told us that he has a two-year-old grandson and he seems like the chatty type in general. But I really wonder what he thinks of being called “The Man!” every day. 
Oh!! How adorable! Thanks for sharing! I hope I can visit again this fall!
You know, there’s a lot of material here. Like, why don’t you every call me “the Man”?
I think we should get some marital counseling. Or, you can just call me “the Man” every now and then.
that’s funny
—the blog post and the Man’s comment
I’m glad to see you guys are teaching her about social injustice and stereotypes at such a young age
Ya, I suppose it wouldn’t be good to be “the Man” if people were always sticking it to me.
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