Piper’s been playing tricks on us. It’s her new thing. She inherited a bag of discarded pranks from Sissy’s bygone trickster days. Round two is just as funny.
“Here, Mom! Can you open this can of potato chips for me?” Piper asks, handing me one of these:
“Oh no!” I exaggerate. “I had no idea these weren’t real!”
That sends Piper into a fit of giggles on the floor…right next to the fake dog poop, which she’s strategically placed right next to the fake vomit and the fake rat she’s blaming it all on.
“Mom! There’s a rat in our house! And it pooped and threw up on the floor!”
“A what?” I play along.
“A rat! It’s right there next to the snake. And the poop and stuff. We better run!” Piper sprints out of the room. She comes back seconds later. “Whew! I need some water. Here, Mom, drink out of this cup. I poured you a nice glass of water.”
I take the miniature plastic cup filled with lukewarm tap water. “Thanks, Piper. That sounds refreshing.” Dribble, dribble. The water seeps out from two holes near the lip. “What? I guess I forgot how to drink water!”
“Oh, Mom. You’re so funny!”
“No, Piper. You are!”
“Mom, did you just fart? I heard a fart!”
And she’s only halfway through the prank stash.
what a good sport you are
Thanks! I find it goes away faster if you play along 🙂
smart girl – we learn as we go, don’t we?
Sometimes. I’m lucky Piper isn’t my first kid. I’ve already been trained.
I love how it’s non-stop, all the pranks at once.
She even explained the “fake” everything. “You see it’s pretend dog poop. A dog didn’t really poop in here. It’s just fake. See? I’m touching it!”