The Most Embarrassing of Them All Part 1

      When my house is quiet, there's a problem. It usually means that Natalie is up to something.  Natalie does a lot of things well, but her best talent is saying embarrassing things, and doing naughty stuff.  Natalie doesn't always like being characterized as the naughty one, but she is the only one of the five kids who does some questionable activities.    

Natalie is on the very left.

      Natalie does a lot of embarrassing things because she doesn't have a filter.  During a family reunion two summers ago, Natalie asked my cousin if she was pregnant.  It was a day before she got married, and I can tell you that she wasn't pregnant.  My cousin, Courtney, told Natalie that it was just her shirt because it was really puffy.  Natalie responded, "Honey, it's not the shirt." Then, Natalie walked away leaving me to awkwardly apologize and walk away myself.

     Another time, my mom was cleaning a shelf, and she took one of her antique dolls off of it.  When my mom finished dusting and turned around, her doll's silk ballet shoes were all cut up.  My mom got mad because Natalie was standing right there, scissors in hand.  When my mom stopped yelling at Natalie, Natalie calmly said, "Mom, it's your fault.  You shouldn't have left the scissors out where I could get them."  At the time, Natalie was three.  We all knew that she was going to be the crazy child.

     Natalie has always had an obsession with boys.  If there were thirty girls in a room, and one boy, she would find the boy and stay with him.  Well, my dad owned a physical therapy practice, and one of his employees was single and male.  Natalie developed a crush on him when she was only two years old.  Whenever he came, she would sit by him and just smile.  One day, my dad's employee got married.  He came over to our house with his wife, and when Natalie saw her, she wasn't happy.  The couple sat next to each other on the couch, and Natalie got even more angry.  She went to the couch and squeezed her way in between the two.  Then, she looked at the wife and smiled.

     One Christmas Natalie got some paints.  She had recently watched Princess Diaries, and really wanted to put paints in a balloon and pop it on a piece of paper.  That night, Natalie snuck out of bed and went to her bathroom.  She shut the door and locked it.  All of a sudden, we heard a pop, and when we went to the bathroom, paint was spilled everywhere, and it was all over Natalie's face.  When she saw us, she smiled and said, "That was awesome!"  Two Christmases later, Natalie received a baby doll that you could feed and it would go to the bathroom.  Natalie was told not to feed it unless she had a diaper on it.  Well, Natalie didn't listen, and she fed her baby doll.  A couple of minutes later, Natalie was running all over the house screaming, "It's peeing and it won't stop!"  My mom grabbed the doll and put in the sink, but it was too late.  Baby doll food was all over the floor throughout the whole house.  Natalie's only comment was, "Well, I won't be doing that again."

     Whenever Natalie does something that lacks manners, we teach her the manners that she should have used in that situation.  Natalie has gotten better now that she's ten, but she still has little slips every now and then.  Natalie keeps life entertaining.  Everyday is something new.