Happy
The child arrived in the nick of time to eat a pancake. She wasn’t trying to escape from sadness, and she wasn’t dying for a pancake, but she could handle a pancake standing up, without using a plate or a fork.
The wife wasn’t eating yet, but she was cooking and preparing to serve. It meant so much to the wife to do that. Her husband would be served. The wife must have given him an ultimatum. He wore pajamas. The wife wore daytime clothes. The child was dressed for the occasion, and wore these sturdy toddler shoes.
Surely it is a fact of experience, that a young enough child who believes that pancakes are delicious, usually embraces an opportunity to eat one. At the age of two, this child considered her opportunity and made a decision that was plausible to her at the time. However, as an adult who is a happy-go-lucky person for no good reason, she marvels at how jubilant she was, so young, when she missed out on a pancake in a circumstance when nobody preeminent was sneering at her.