For her third birthday, my daughter received a DVD copy of the Disney classic Sleeping Beauty. She’s watched it a couple of times since then, but she hadn’t sat in rapt attention watching it.
She was sitting at her table this morning having her cereal, when I walked by on my way to the shower. Suddenly, she turned to me with a look of menace on her face. She shouted:
“Touch the spindle. TOUCH IT I SAY.”
I was completely dumbfounded, and unsure how I was to respond to such an order. At that point, she reached out with her right finger and pricked it on an imaginary spindle. She then, ever so gracefully, fell on the ground, feigning sleep. She then hopped up and shouted:
"There’s your precious princess now. MWWWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
She then stormed out of the room, cackling like a banshee.
You really haven’t lived until you’ve seen a 3 year old cackle evilly. It’s a joy to behold. I haven’t been able to get it out of my mind, and now I’ve polluted yours. Don’t blame me, though, blame Disney.
Awwww! It’s moments like that that make you wish you had a video camera built into your body somehow.
My son made my 5 year old daughter a ring with a stone from the rock tumbler he got for Christmas. She took it in both hands, hunched up her shoulders and squinched up her face, and hissed, “It’s mine! My Precioussss!”
When my youngest daughter was young we were watching the video of Cinderella, when we had to stop to go do something else. When we put the tape back in, I said, “Now, where were we?” My daughter answered, “It was right after the part where Cinderella flipped the bird,” referring to the scene where a bird landed on her hand and she flipped it away after singing to it. My wife and I laughed long and hard about that one.
Well, your kid is certainly bizarre, if the stories I’ve heard are true.
My wonderful child is … how to say… pleasantly different? Scarily odd? Psychotically Unbalanced? One of those three, I’m just not sure which yet.
You should hear her belt out the ABC song while hiding her face by pulling her dress all the way up to the amusement of all the other mothers and fathers. Brittany Spears watch out!!!
HeeHeeHee. Just make sure she doesn’t only eat raw fish.
My other 6 month old daughter does a bitchin’ Dubya imitation. She sits there looking befuddled and drools on herself.
I’m wondering if I should be concerned that rather than the “precious princess”, my daughter more identifies with the evil Malifiecent. I’m ascared. Verrrry Ascared.
No kidding. I met Cinderella in a bar in Chicago once, and she is a mean drunk. I’m not surprised she’s flipping the bird to your daughter.
