something you can do when you're small

She was wearing pink sandals and an ample pale grey dress with a pink sash around her middle. What was going on in the adult world around her was of sweet indifference to her. So after performing a few pirouettes and racing across the hall, she decided to clamber over a low wooden barrier. Only she had misjudged the height at which the floor on the other side of the barrier was. It was far down. So far down that her feet were no longer touching the ground and she only just managed to reach the other side with the tips of her fingers to gain some kind of temporary equilibrium as she worked out how she was going to put herself in an upright position again. She remained in this posture for a while, with her little legs jutting out over the barrier, her dress down over her head, displaying a lovely pair of floppy pink underpants underneath.