The Land of No

We have entered the land of no. No is Penny's favorite word. I have learned that if I asked her anything, anything at all, in the form of a question, she will answer, "No."
Last night it took me forever to get her to take a bath. Every night after supper she almost immediately heads for the bedroom saying "bath. bath." But, when I got her in there she stood in front of our closet door and would not come get in the bath tub for anything. I asked her, "Do you want to come get in the bath?" No. "Do you want to come see the bubbles?" No. etc. Oh, and I forgot, all sentences that start with, "Let's...", as in, "Let's get in the bathtub ok?," are met with "No." before I even finish the sentence. "Let's go change your diaper." No. "Let's sit down and have some supper." No.
Patience is a virtue.

On the plus side she continues to do cool stuff. She's been counting to two ("one...two...") for a good little while but yesterday she added five and six. So now it goes, "one...two...mumble mumble something...fife...six). She'll hold up her fingers too, but can't make them do anything to correspond with the numbers she is saying. Even though she has added five and six to her verbal count I have only seen her actually count physical objects up to two. Tonight at supper Tray and I were having a conversation about something that did not pertain to Penny and evidently she felt left out because she lifted her hands up and started counting for us. It was kind of funny.

She also knows the color orange. Of all the colors to start with you'd think she'd pick something easier to pronounce, but she loves to eat sweet peppers right out of the yard and they are orange in color. She used to try to pick the green ones too and we'd tell her she'd have to get an orange one, so I think that's why she knows that color. Anyway, her stuffed mouse has one orange paw and she'll hold it up and go, "Are-dandge" (which is cute too - but not so much at 4 a.m.)