So children are demanding of their parents. Any mother or father will tell you that children master the art of begging, pleading, bargaining, and scamming very early on. There is nothing cuter than Ava saying, "Pleath?" with a knowing smile on her face. They sense that millisecond hesitation where your heart says, "Awww...Isn't she the cutest thing ever?!?! Give her what she wants, just spoil her rotten!" before your carefully guilted-in and babycenter-researched parenting skills kick in..."No, baby." And the battle is on.
Tonight, I got double-teamed. Aiden and Ava both wanted something simultaneously--not as rare as it should be--and the answers were wait until later and no, respectively. Aiden, quite innocently started it all with one please? and Ava looked at him, smiled, and said pleath? Aiden looked back at her, grinned...And it was on. Please...pleath...please...pleath...please...pleath...please...pleath...please...pleath...pleeeeeeee...
I tried to get this sweet yet annoying spectacle on tape, but of course the second the camera came out it was dancing time. So, it effectively ended the pleath...please... session, but now no one but me can appreciate the hilarity of that moment :) The hilarious part is, not only were the two monsters entertaining themselves, but they were also seriously still begging me. Neither one of them can be distracted or made to forget very easily. Talk about multi-tasking!
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