The pathos of Piper and the Dorito of Destiny

Dec 10, 2008 13:51

So Xan was in school this morning and I was cleaning my new cookie press and Piper toddled into the kitchen and asked for a cookie. So I gave her one of her wagon wheel cookies. She took it and wandered off. She came back as I was drying my cookie press and asked for another cookie, so I gave her another one.

Everything seemed happy in Reynolds land, right? But all that came to a halt...

Piper asked for another cookie and I gave it to her ( they are apple thingies made by Gerber... I wasn't getting her filled up or oreos or anything like that.) And she stood in the kitchen regarding it.

I decided that I too had the munchies, so I grabbed a bag of doritos out of the pantry.

Piper looked up and saw me eat a Dorito. So in her little tiny 18 month old voice, she said "cookie?" and I pointed out that she already had a cookie.

Thusly, the pathos began.

Piper flung her cookie to the ground... not dropped... Flung. Then she balled her hands into tiny fists of rage, clamped her eyes shut, and started howling. Very much like the ill-fated misunderstanding cupcake incident at Xan's birthday party.)

She howled with all the rage she could muster. I finally got her to open her eyes and I gave her a dorito. She took it, smiled angelically, said "Cookie!" and wandered out of the kitchen with it.

It was like a little 23 pound volcano of fury went Pompei in my kitchen.
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