Cordelia was pisstastic this afternoon, almost from the moment she woke up. How bad was it? She decided to pick a fight with me, which she hardly ever does.
So we're in the playroom this afternoon while Cody is at the dentist with Shannon. She presents me with six blocks and instructs me to "Build a Tower."
JVL: Manners, young lady.
CML: Please. Build a tower. Now.
[I build her a pyramid tower, because I find them more interesting.]
[Cordelia promptly swats the entire thing aside in frustration.]
CML: No! Other tower! Tall tower! Build it!
JVL: Cordelia, that is not polite at all.
At this point, she glowers at me and fixes me with her sociopath-death stare. And she then reaches down, picks up the blocks from the tower, and casually throws them across the room, without breaking eye contact.
JVL: Young lady, when you throw things, they are all gone. I will take them away. Do you understand?
She kept her eyes on mine, but did not respond. Then my princess wordlessly moved about the playroom picking up every single object on the floor, looking directly at me, and then throwing. Every. Single. Thing.
Toys, bits of paper, blocks, spools of thread.
It took her nearly five minutes. She never said a word.
2 comments:
I think she said plenty! And I know the death stare. I guess she told you a thing or two!
Yep. She is definitely going to be the one who gets caught trying to sneak out at 3am when she's 15.
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