"Pulling a Madalyn" would be...
1. Running smack into the wall and falling over because are so excited looking down at the Elmo shirt you have on.
2. Leaning into your parents with a mmmmm whenever you hug them, like you've just found your soul mate.
3. Ramming the refrigerator door into your mother's head with the instinct of a billy goat whenever she's fishing something out of it. (And always getting a running start, and always catching her off guard.)
4. Blowing your daddy kisses every day as he leaves for work with your other hand pressed up to the pane of the glass by the door. When he turns to finally go, like from Jekyll to Hyde, you bang on it violently until he turns for yet another goodbye and then transform right back into softness, going back to your blowing kisses and gently waving.
5. Frequently spouting a pitiful and emphatic "PEAS" not as a question, but as a guaranteed "magic word" that gets you whatever it is you're in need of and as if your well-being depends on it, (in just the same manner as you might click your ruby heels together and demand to go home.)
6. Making "Madalyn eyes." (Clamp them shut, pressing your lashes into your cheeks, tip your chin down to your chest, and then pull them back open with pretended effort, looking straight up or up and to the side.) But honestly, I don't know if anyone could pull this off except for M.C. in the flesh. I assure you, she gives a whole new meaning to "making eyes."
IMPORTANT SIDE NOTE: Happy Birthday, JULIE!!
