Maggie the Monster

There's a cartoon named Maggie and the Ferocious Beast. I've never watched it, I just know it exists. I bring this up because sometimes Maggie is a ferocious beast. She's a well mannered, innocent, sweet little girl most of the time. But sometimes the monster in her comes through. I know this is typical toddler behavior (I'll just keep telling myself that at least). I try to discipline, but most of the time I find it so funny and out of character for her that I just end up laughing. Which I guess in a way proves to Maggie that her tantrum doesn't work--right?

During sacrament meeting Maggie was flipping through my scriptures. I have some post-it notes with quotes written on them scattered throughout the pages of my scriptures. Maggie found one of the post-it notes and peeled it off the page. When I asked her to give it back she refused. So I began to pull on it, but her grip was firm. I let her win round one of the tug-o-war because I didn't want to paper to rip in half. When I went in for round two of the tug-o-war she had a new strategy. Realizing I would end up getting it from her eventually, but not wanting to lose completely, she put the post-it note up to her mouth and bit a chunk out of it before she handed it to me.

Yeah, all I could do was try not to laugh.