It's like she knew I posted a blog about how well things went from last weekend. This morning, Penny was up crying at the crack of dawn... or over an hour before dawn... either way. I got up, got dressed, then went in and told them it was time to get up and get dressed. Almost immediately upon my entering the room, the crying subsided. She thought that she was getting the attention that she was going for... turns out, it was just time to get up. It's not the first time she has woken up crying, but the crying usually means that she woke herself up by peeing her pants, the bed and, in one instance, the floor. The last time was last Saturday morning. There is nothing better than getting up at 5am on a Saturday morning to change sheets and such. She likes to play it off by saying that her stomach hurts or her ear hurts or something. Today, she didn't even try to make an excuse. Keep in mind, the body aches really are excuses, because once it's time to get up for the day, she's fine. We've known for a long time that these two, Leonard and Penny, were master manipulators, but we haven't seen it that much in person. Generally we hear about it from daycare and just put the pieces together. Last weekend, Penny had a stomachache about ten minutes after her mom picked them up and then immediately when their dad picked them up. After they each asked us if she had been sick, to which we said "no... not at all", she made an amazing recovery and was herself the rest of the day with them. As long as they get called on their manipulations, they will both stop.
The problem will come when they are no longer with us in a few weeks and they are back with the people who taught them these behaviors.
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