November 25, 2006

Daddy's little secret

Daddy shared his little secret with Jeremy recently, and made him promise not to tell anyone, not even to mummy and Timothy.

That daddy is actually Superman.

I was hoping for a look of awe and lots of questions from him. Instead he smiled excitedly, which I suspected was more at the prospect of having a secret to keep between us, than the fact that I'm the man of steel himself...

Just yesterday I revealed more, in the car:

Daddy: Jeremy, you remember who daddy actually is?
Jeremy (after a brief thought, with a smile on his face): Superman
Daddy: Shhhhh..... (Timothy, mummy, auntie Ethel were all in the car!)
Daddy: You know those nights when you slept with mummy and Timmy first, when daddy have work to do? Actually daddy go out and fight bad guys.
Jeremy:..... (a knowing smile from him)
Then Timothy took over: Why you fight bad guys? Why you bring them to police station? etc, etc

Guess I'm a little to late to try to get Jeremy into believing that, and Timmy's a little too early to understand the implications of me being Superman. And oh yeah, he's Batman, by the way!

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