Thursday, September 22, 2011

Sugar And Spice And Dismemberment

Ah, the joys of having a daughter. Little girls are so sweet. So ladylike. They enjoy quiet activities like tea parties, dress up, coloring.... You can almost hear the cherubic, harp-like music whenever they enter a room, all smiling and clean and free from the intent to fart on you at every turn.


At least, that's what I always thought. Before I actually had one.


Don't get me wrong. I love Elsa. Really, I do. She's fun. She's charming. And she only occasionally sticks incongruous objects up her nose.


But over the past few months I've noticed another quality manifesting itself within this chubby little dynamo of a child: 


She is more manipulative than Hannibal Lector trying to get a cellmate to swallow his own tongue.