3-Year-Old Genius Emmelyn Roettger Proves She's Still a Tot

3-Year-Old Genius Emmelyn Roettger Proves She's Still a Tot, In Mensa or not, this tot proves she’s still a tot, Little Emmelyn Roettger may have an IQ of 135, but that doesn't mean she's not still a toddler. She proved it with a comical moment on national television. 3-year-old’s big moment on TODAY is interrupted by a potty emergency.

Three-year-old Emmelyn Roettger may be the nation’s youngest member of Mensa, the high-IQ society, but for any toddler, potty breaks take precedence — even during interviews on national television.

“My belly hurts,” little Emme wailed on TODAY Friday after correctly answering several pop quiz questions on natural science and the solar system posed by Natalie Morales. “I have to go poop!”

“Oh, sweetie,” Morales said sympathetically. “Oh no, too many doughnuts maybe in the greenroom.”

And when the grownups didn’t move fast enough, little Emme took matters into her own hands and started trying to remove her microphone. “Take this off me!” she begged.

It was just another challenge in her parents’ daily juggle of managing their brainy toddler, whose voracious intellect and precocious whims generally entail playdates and visits to zoos.

Stoking Emme’s curiosity about space, she took in the space shuttle Discovery’s arrival at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, and clambered inside the Gemini spacecraft at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

“Sometimes I feel she is smarter than me,” Emme’s father, Glenn Roettger, told Morales.

But it wasn’t always that way. When Emme was an infant, her pediatrician worried that she might have developmental delays.

“She wasn’t rolling over and sitting up,” said her mother, Michelle Horne.

But it turns out all the tyke needed was a pair of glasses to correct poor eyesight. Once little Emme could actually see, she developed a insatiable curiosity about the world around her, tearing through books and flash cards and begging her parents to read to her again and again. “It was as if the world opened up,” Michelle told Morales.

On TODAY Friday, Emme explained that “metamorphosis” is how caterpillars turn into butterflies and correctly identified the planets Saturn and Mars. She also showed a toddler’s fascination with the TODAY show’s television cameras, making faces and waving at the crew.

source: msn