Rose is starting to developing a pretty strong sense of right and wrong. Once she knows what our household "rule" is, she doesn't hesitate to enforce it for me and Mike also. Two recent examples happened at the dinner table earlier this week. We were eating chicken caesar salad (i.e., Rose gets mostly croutons and we have been teaching her that you have to "try" everything, such as the lettuce and the chicken) and Rose noticed that I didn't have any croutons (because I hate them, although I've never said that in front of her) and she promptly informed me "you have to TRY them, Mommy!!" Shortly thereafter, Mike's phone rang and he got up to answer it. She yelled out, "NO, Daddy! You have to stay at the table until everyone is done eating!!"
She is very emphatic when she knows/thinks she is right!
On a similar vein, she is also starting to try her hand at lying and at evading detection by her sly parents. She sometimes tries to tell me that has already washed her hands, when I've been standing right next to her for the 30 seconds since I asked her to do so and clearly she hasn't done it! Yet she is totally straight-faced and I would fall for it if I hadn't seen with my own eyes that she is not telling the truth.
She also likes to tell us to "go away - go someplace else" when we ask her to stop doing something - as if it will be okay for her to continue to do it once she is no longer in our sight. Like the other day when we were coloring together and I reminded her that we don't put markers in our mouths. Her response was "go away, Mommy! Go someplace else."
And mine was "nice try, schnookums." :)
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