Yes, it's been that kind of day. Early this morning, my 2 year old Penny was praying to the porcelain Budda for the first time in her life (well, that she can remember). Here I woke up thinking it would be another potty trip for lil Miss Tinkle Panties. As I lifted her up onto the potty, I noticed she was wet and then I woke up enough to notice the smell and the chunks (tmi?).
Anyways, I ran a shower for her, undressed her bed, remade her bed, dressed her, started a load of laundry, went back to bed, then got up for a whole other cycle of the same. Again, and again, and again.
This sounds terrible, right? It is...but I learned something about Penny that I never knew before. Well, maybe I learned a couple of different things. One, she may be two, but she has a maturity level well beyond her years, maybe that of an 8 year old. My other girls threw colossal tantrums because they were absolutely mortified their first time. Penny was different. Oh, she was a bit disturbed by the whole experience, as anyone would be, but once I showed her how to lean over the toilet, she did just fine on her own.
This is when I learned that she has the sense of humor of an 8 year old as well. In fact, I'm probably going to have to admit that my sweet, little, innocent, Pennies from Heavens is nothing other than a SICK, TWISTED, LITTLE FREAK hiding behind kissable chubby cheeks. Why would I ever say such a thing about this beautiful child??? Because, even though this little girl was going through a puking spell brought on by some sort of food poisoning, she would get up between puking spells to sit by the toilet, look at me and say, "Try again?" then make pretend retching sound in the toilet bowl. Then she'd look at me and grin the biggest, mischevious, ear to to ear grin! She was getting a kick out of it! Then she'd actually puke.
Now that I type this, I really should have seen this coming. This is my child who used to give me heart attacks when she was just 9 months old because she would fake having a seizure. Seriously! One day I looked at her and she started making spasms with her body and I watched in horror wondering if I was actually seeing what I thought I was seeing. When she was done, she'd give me that same evil grin. She never did have a real seizure.
Between her and Seren, I'm in for it. At any rate, she is better now and we are all exhausted from being up all night (morning?).
Update: Since I first posted this, I learned that Penny has been passing nasty raunchy farts and saying in her sweet little voice, "Daddy did it! Daddy faaaaarrrted!"
