ninety nine

So many things for me to love about this photo. Let’s start with Esme’s lack of shirt. She was insistant on that point. Then we’ll continue on to Catherine’s ‘salad’ made from carrots, broccoli and cauliflower that she cleaned, cut and slap-chopped all on her own. Notice the chopsticks she’s chosen to eat the tiny bits with!

And then we must examine how the three of us all organize our money: Catherine’s in a heap, mine left to right in true Bank Teller fashion and Esme’s right to left, tucked under the board like Papa taught her.

Not to mention that things that the photo doesn’t quite show. The way the girls move each other’s pawns when the other can’t reach. The way they say please and thank you when collecting their rent. The fact that both girls made it through an entire game from start to bankrupt without losing interest. There were no sore losers at the end, and, most amazingly of all, Esme sat on the table the whole time and the game was never knocked over!