Stupid Stuff

It's not that she's stupid. Siena knows half the alphabet, and can tell you what number follows a given number, though she can't yet count from one to ten. It's that she does stupid things. But they're not really stupid things when you consider that a two-year-old's doing them. They're really just frustrating.

For example, Siena's imagination is growing every day. The other day she wanted to give a drink from the hose to these decorative little stone frog-shaped stands for the potted plants out back. This morning, she wanted to give Baby a sip of Siena's milk. From a normal cup, not a sippy-cup. As you might expect, Baby didn't drink what Siena poured, and it ende dup on the rug. But why didn't Siena expect that?

Maybe she never intended to actually pour the milk, and couldn't control it with her little hands. But she's trying more and more to do grown-up things, though she's clearly not ready to do them. And that leads to what I, in my frustration, called stupid stuff.

Perhaps what's stupid is expecting a two-year-old to act like anything but.