Miss Independent

This is not the greatest picture, but it's good enough to share the story behind it. Maddie loves to follow anyone into the bathroom. She thinks her job is to sit or stand on the stool while whoever she followed does their job. We've been trying to train the boys to shut the door when they come out or go into the bathroom, but she still on occasion finds her way in. She climbs up on the stool and then determines (in her mind) that she's stuck. She then begins yelling, "Ma, Ma, Ma" for a rescue.

That one syllable word was so cute at first...now it seems to take on new meaning!

So on this particular occasion, she had climbed up and was stuck. I went to retrieve my camera before rescuing her. When I returned, camera in hand, she had somehow gotten a hold of the soap dispenser. I snapped the picture and as if in defiance to me she stuck the soap in her mouth to attempt to eat it. I'm pretty sure she didn't get much, but the look on her face said that what she had intended for defiance had not turned out the way she planned.

Although she still has a desire to climb the stool in the bathroom, I haven't seen her with the soap!