Bad manners

Babykins is about as polite as a 2 year old can be.  She says "please" and "thank you" and will say "bless you" when you sneeze.

Then while we were in Puerto Rico, a man stuck his tongue out at her.  She stuck hers out in return, he laughed, and they quickly started a game that consisted entirely of sticking their tongues out at each other.

And since then, Babykins has stuck her tongue out at just about everyone we meet.  Unfortunately, everyone thinks it's adorable.  Which encourages her.  Which leads to more tongue sticking outing.  Which, in the words of Mary Poppins, leads to "chaos, anarchy, moral disintegration!  In short, you have a ghastly mess."

Despite our best efforts, Babykins continues to stick her tongue out at every person who makes eye contact.  There goes our well-mannered toddler.  Sigh...

And then a miracle happened...

We put Babykins down in her bed, gave her kisses, said "Goodnight", climbed into our own bed, and she fell asleep.  By herself.  Just like that.  Miracles do happen.