Saturday, June 25, 2005

On the Count of Three

Apparently toddlers can be threatened. Tonight at dinner Emma kept standing up in her booster seat. Kevin just hates that - he's sure she's going to fall and land on her head.

Daddy: Emma, sit down.

She met his gaze and didn't move.

Daddy: Emma, sit down.

Mommy: Sit.

Emma doesn't move.

Mommy: Sit before I count to three.

I held up three fingers.

Mommy: ONE

Emma just looked at me.

Mommy: TWO

Emma looked at Daddy.

Mommy: Do you really want to get down from the table? Sit before I say THREE.

And lo and behold, and before I got to three, she sat!

I don't know who was more surprised - Kevin or me! Kevin said he'd have given 1000:1 odds of this working.

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