Mrs. KF, my mother, my father, and me(very little me) are taking care of my almost 3 year old niece to give my very pregnant sister-in-law a rest. My brother has been telling me for some months how tiring Olivia is, my constant response has been "how can that cute little girl be a problem". Well, I see how now, after 5 days. My mother left yesterday to go to Colorado to the high school graduation of one of my cousins daughters, my father felt that he would like for Olivia to spend the night at our house.
When we put her to bed at 8pm I questioned the wisdom of that, I pointed out to Amy that if we kept her up until we went to bed she would be more likely to not wake up at some ungodly hour, but I was told firmly that 8 was her bedtime. At about 5 am, which is much earlier than I think about waking up, I heard a rather loud squalling. As I have done very little, and she actually is my niece although she prefers Amy to me, I got out of bed to see what the problem was. The problem was, she had to go to the bathroom. I took her to the bathroom, then she informed me it was time to get up. I protested that it was not time to get up, but she started crying so Mrs KF told me to bring her to bed with us. I might just as well have gotten up, because she began to jabber non-stop, telling me at one point, "my feet stink, do you want to smell them?". By about 5:30 I realized it was pointless to think about going back to bed. We gave in to her demands to watch 101 Dalmations, after about 15 minutes she tired of that, the upside is I can now sing "Cruella DeVille", a song I now can recall from my own childhood.
Mrs. KF took her to the zoo this morning, she fell asleep on the way home, my but she is cranky when she wakes up. I have spent about 10 minutes trying to convince her to eat her favorite food, Chicken Nuggets, unsuccessfully. Mrs. KF has now put her to bed, I suppose so she can be well rested and get us up at 4 am tomorrow morning.
I am hoping now that my suggestion to Mrs KF that rather than have our own children we should adopt a 10 and 12 year old is looking more acceptable.
Just so you don't think I am too soft, and so you will know how brilliant she is, last night when she was tormenting me I held up my hand and said, "do you see my hand?". "Yes I do" she replied. "Do you know what it would be good for?" I asked. She answered, "to spank me with". Now is that child brilliant or what, she read my mind!