Every day when Daddy picks me up from preschool at the end of the day, it's recess so we're out on the playground. He almost always lets me stay until recess is over, and he plays with me and all of my friends! Everybody knows him as "Piper's Dad", and he loves being called that. It seems like all of the girls like to play with him, probably because he's a "girl's Daddy", not a "boy's Daddy", although recently the boys have started playing more with him too. He loves it! It's a constant barrage of "Piper's Dad, watch me!" "Piper's Daddy, look I can go all the way across the monkey bars now!" "Piper's Dad, can you be a big monster and chase us?" There is always a LOT of monster chasing, it's our favorite game! We usually hide in the little tunnel and slides where he can't easily get us. We also like for him to be the mean troll who tickles us if we can't get all the way across the monkey bars, but sometimes he doesn't want to be mean and is a nice troll who gives us high-fives or hugs when we do make it (and especially when we don't make it)!
Sometimes we'll even chase him, and he might have 15 3-5 year olds running after him all around the playground! Since he often goes for a run before he comes to get me, he's all worn out and we can usually catch him if we try hard enough.
Today when he walked through the door into the playground, two of the girls saw him first. The one said to the other, "It's Piper's Dad", and the other answered "Yay!" They didn't know he heard them, but it sure made him feel pretty good!
