Call me Pia again

For several months Pia had been reminding us that she didn't want to be called Pia anymore.  Instead, she wanted us to call her Sophia (her real name).

If we made the mistake of calling her 'Pia', she would shout back: "DON'T CALL ME PIA!"

Still, we kept on forgetting.  In part because we have called her Pia since she was a baby.  And partly because it's hard to take a 5-year old seriously. 

Nevertheless she remained insistent.  Until something happened at home one day and changed her mind.

Her assignment that day was to write out her name ten times, a task which proved challenging. She endeavoured to write "Sophia" properly, but kept making the same mistakes.  She'd get the 'P' written in upper case and forget the 'i', so that 'Sophia' came out as 'SoPha'.

After an hour of trying, she came to a Eureka moment -- "Pia" is shorter and easier to write than Sophia.

Pia: "Mommy, I want you to call me Pia.  My name is Pia, so I will write Pia ten times."

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