The Master of Distraction

Let me first give a little background to this story. When Keira was first starting to walk she loved to play with her grandmother's shoes. Whenever we would take her to my mom's house, Keira would always find grandma's shoes and run off. My mom would be in her recliner with the foot rest up and her shoes would be right in front of her. After awhile, my mom would quickly put the foot rest down and grab her shoes whenever she would see Keira coming her way. Well, Keira changed her tactics immediately. She would come to the end of the foot rest (only her head was over it) and just smile at my mom. Of course my mom would smile back and talk to her, but what my mom didn't know was while Keira was smiling, she was also picking up my mom's shoes with her foot and bringing them up to her hands. As soon as she had both of them, she would take off running. My mom was none the wiser until she found her shoes were missing.

Now, fast forward to today. I go to work by 6:00 in the morning, and as soon as work is over I go to school until about 10:00 at night four days a week. When I get home Keira is usually in bed, but this night she was laying in Tricia's lap asleep and Tricia was watching one of her movies. When I asked how her night was, this was Tricia's story. At 7:30 Tricia told Keira that it was time for bed, and the standard rebuttal that Keira gave was "5 more minutes" (while holding up four fingers).

She then asked, "Watch a moobie".

Tricia being in a generous mood gave in and told her she could pick out a movie.

Right away Keira said, "I want to watch a mommy moobie".

Tricia has been watching these A&E mini series shows that are of the "olden days". They are fairly boring, so Tricia was surprised that Keira asked to watch this particular movie, but she obliged anyway. Keira's scheme was set in place. A little while into the movie, when Keira knew that Tricia would be totally engulfed in the movie, Keira disappeared into the kitchen. Suddenly, Tricia realized that she hadn't heard anything from Keira in awhile and past experience has proven that this was not a good thing. But, when she looked up she noticed Keira standing there in the dark just looking at her.

Tricia asked her, "Keira have you been eating the cookies?" (Tricia had made a big batch of chocolate chip cookies earlier in the day).

Keira replied, "No."

"Keira, are you lying to me?"

"No."

Still suspecting that Keira had eaten some cookies, Tricia turned on the light to find a chocolate covered little girl, and almost a dozen cookies missing. Keira definitely knew what she was doing when she asked for the "mommy moobie".