Funny things that Erin Does

Of my two daughters, my youngest is definitely the bigger prankster. Some highlights:

1. It is always tough to admit that you are wrong and to apologize, whatever your age. Erin, has a really big problem with this. She doesn't do anything that bad, just the usual level of nonsense, but you have to have some sort of discipline. Luckily my wife imposes the discipline, overall she is the far better parent. One day, I can't remember exactly when, we told Erin to apologize to her sister for something minor like stealing her toy. Erin was very reluctant to do so, finally she grinned a big smile and belted out "Sorry Whaaaa", and laughed her head off. Apparently, she came up with the compromise that she was OK with saying sorry if she didn't have to say who she was apologizing too.

2. She loves to sing in public places at the top of her lungs. She usually pulls from the movie "Frozen", but also likes to sing her version of the abc's. Her version consists of inserting the letter "O" at the usual stopping points, so she will sing "A-B-C-D-E-F-O-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-O-Q-R-O-T-U-O-W-X-Y-AND O" and so on. She did this for an entire train ride, but luckily the train wasn't crowded and people thought it was hilarious, in fact they were encouraging her to do it again - which she happily obliged. Sometimes she will just make up a language and sing it along to a melody.

3. She has no idea about her relative size. She genuinely thinks she can wrestle me into submission to get her way. The other day, we were playing in a creek and she was having a great time trying to herd a flock of Canadian Geese, and those are pretty good sized birds. Similarly, she used to believe that she could breathe underwater. The first few times we took her to the pool she would just calmly keep walking into deeper and deeper water until it was over her head. Of course we were there to intervene. Her favorite way to move around is to jump everywhere, off of couches, off of people, off of anything.

4. Depending on the day, she is either extremely friendly with remote controls or a pure menace. Most days she is a menace, she loves to steal the remotes, try to run and jump into a remote (pun!) location and hit all the buttons in the hope of changing the channel, turning it off etc. On other days, she is very concerned that you are actually holding the remotes and not comfortable with the idea of them simply being within arms reach. She will hand over each one, saying "there you go" in the most serious voice she can muster.

5. If it were up to her, she would do all her eating in the car. At meal time, she seems to eat very little, but the moment she gets in the car she has this insatiable appetite. It is amazing how much food she can put away when she in that car seat. Typically, she then falls asleep, kind of like an old man.

Was trying to get to 10, but drawing a bit of a blank right now, I will try to make a note of some more.