Funny Four

I watched Delaney today, my little doodle bug that I watched from the time she was 7 weeks old up until she went to preschool. Here are some highlights...

• I forgot that she's got a ticklish bladder, meaning that when she gets tickled she pees her pants. Darn! I'm pretty sure I do it every time she comes to my house. I'm a tickler. I can't help it. I always remember about 5 seconds into the tickling, but it's always too late. She didn't have any extra underpants today.
• Me: "Delaney, go potty, then take off your underpants and put your pants back on. I'll wash your underpants while you take a nap." Delaney: "Can I help you?" Me: "No, I'm just going to put them in the washing machine." Delaney: "My mom and dad don't like for me to take off my underpants when I sleep." Hmmm. Good rule.
  
• She runs out of the bathroom, "Amanda, come look at the toilet paper. It's unrolling all by itself. It's wasting, Amanda! It's wasting!" No way did that whole roll of toilet paper unroll itself.
• The excuse to not nap..."I'm afraid to sleep here" in Elliot's room.
  
• I know she'll only sleep about an hour, so I strategically place myself in the front room right under the room where she's sleeping so I can intercept her before she wakes the other little ones who sleep longer (God willing). At the first, "Amanda", I bolt up the steps. "Why did it take me so long to wake up?"
• In the bathroom again, "Amanda, come look." (I know from previous experience that this is not going to be good.) "Someone spilled water all over the floor". How does this little girl pee between the toilet bowl and seat and all over my floor? It's not the first time.
• Delaney: "Am I going to eat dinner with you?" Me: "No, your mommy and daddy want you to eat at home." Delaney: "I'm hungry. When is my dad going to be here? Am I spending the night or what?" Me: "Your dad will be here at 6 o'clock and you're going to eat when you get home." Delaney: "Elliot said my dad will be here at 22 o'clock. Amanda, my mommy and daddy don't want me to eat at home."