Saturday, December 3

22 mo old bff

My 22 mo old bff is a smarty pants.

She can: spell her name
             count to ten
             correctly identify each letter of the alphabet
             and sometimes pee in the potty.
Guys: she is not even two yet. This all a pretty big deal.

But with great genius comes, well, a lot of other things. Like sneakiness.
Today I notices that my darling-est little-est baby bunny of joy has developed certain sneaky behaviors. Primarily, she has a sneaky walk and a sneaky talk.

Sneaky Walk
This is not so hard to picture. Imagine a child deciding that each step must land as lightly as possible. Imagine a child trying to accomplish that quickly. Now remember that this is a very small child, who is still learning how to step in general.
Basically, Zo creeps about on her tip toes, with her back a little hunched over like in how people creep around on tip toes in old cartoons.
(I do a pretty good impression.)

Sneaky Talk
When Zo has lighted on a plan of action that she knows I will not like/try and stop her from doing, she has started to try to distract me. It's a very simple procedure.
1. Zo sees forbidden object (example: my cell phone)
2. A look crosses Zo's face as she realizes she wants the forbidden object. (I usually see this look cross her face.)
3. Zo looks at me to assess if I will stop her from having the forbidden object. (Yes, I will.)
4. Zo looks back at the object.
5. Zo looks at me.
6. Zo looks back at the object.
7. Zo smiles and waves at me, cheerily saying "byee byee!"
She then, presumably, expects me to say "bye bye" back, wave and walk away to leave her to the glory of her prize. (It doesn't ever happen that way.)

Little Miss Sneaky McSneakerson may be cute, but give her some time and she'll come up with actually sneaky things to do, I know it.

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