I have no idea if this is a typical behavior of eighteen-month-olds, but Julia has a very specific (fake) cry when she has been into something she shouldn't have and the situation has gone beyond her control.
Example: Yesterday while Dave and I were getting her bath and Dax's bottle, she was in the computer room. Suddenly we heard a whining moan and the pounding sound of her "running" out of the room. I looked at her and asked, "What have you touched that you weren't supposed to?" Dave looked in the computer room and his mouse was dangling off the edge of his desk. Julia had been playing with his mouse (a well-known no-no) and couldn't figure out how to get it back onto the desk once she knocked it off. Thus the preemptive crying of someone who knows she's going to get in trouble!
Now I just have to keep fighting my urge to giggle whenever I hear it. Doesn't help the role of disciplinarian when you lay down the law with a grin.
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I would love, love, LOVE to give you some sage advice. But I can't. I get tickled over all three of them when they get themselves into scrapes that they know are going to bring about a certain aching in their hiney area. It does lessen some, the funniness of it, because the scrapes get worse. But Thomas is almost four and I still have to hide it occasionally.
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