Rissa’s new career path

Last night at bedtime.

“New career path Mummy!  No longer will I be a chiropractor or massage therapist.  I will now be… a NINJA.  My catch phrase shall be “You will never see me coming!”  From her position lying in the bed, Rissa launches herself up at me, pulling me flat against her chest, her arms iron bars against my back.  “See? You didn’t see me coming!”  Releasing me, she takes a deeply satisfied breath.   “I’ll have a cool ninja name too.  Like Lotus Flower or Turtle Swan…“

“Turtle swan…?”

She mimes the action of a turtle retreating into its shell before morphing into a swan.  “Does this look like a turtle swan?  Or more like a frog elephant?”

“Hard to say.”

“Or maybe I’d be more like Ninja who attacks at dusk because she has a curfew…  or Ninja who attacks before dawn so that her parents don’t know what she’s up to and she has time to change before going to school… “

She gets a crazed glint in her eye.  “You’ll never see me coming!!!!”  She grabs me again, clutching me tightly to her torso once more.

Trapped in the crook of her neck, I manage a muffled, “I totally saw you coming!”

“No you didn’t.”

“I’m thinking that you might want to go with the catch phrase AFTER the attack.”