My Little Drama Queen

I've mentioned before how T is a HUGE drama queen. She loves taking an emotion..happiness, sadness, madness, etc, and pretending to feel it to the nth degree. Here's an example of what she did tonight...

She's in her bedroom, clad in a princess dress of course, playing and watching TV. Suddenly I hear her making a noise...perhaps a cry, perhaps a groan of pain. It sounds like: Uhhh....Uhhhh.....Uhhhh....Uhhhh...over and over again. She comes running out, continuing the sound, and climbs up onto my lap, puts her head on my shoulder, and continues making the sound. One of my difficulties is sometimes trying to decipher whether or not she's faking. So, I start rubbing her back, saying "its OK,"... saying "Talk to mama, use words, use words Taylor, I can't help you unless I know whats wrong."

T picks her head up off my shoulder, gives me a VERY pathetic look, and says three words....


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p.s. Dot's trip to Houston is cancelled due to Ike. I hope everyone says a prayer or sends good thoughts to all the people on the Texas coast. The Nat'l Weather Service has just forecast...for the first time ever... "Those who don't heed the order to evacuate who are in 1 or 2 storey homes, face certain death" for those who do not evacuate Galveston. That's really scary shit.