This is the kid that told me on Monday, when I was taking her upstairs for her nap, that she didn't like me very much, but that she'd like me more when she woke up.
This is the kid that was told she needed to eat her lunch first, but that she could take the cookies that came with her lunch home with her in the car, only to respond, 'I don't think that sounds like a very good idea.'
This is the kid whose main method of negotiation is to just repeat 'BUT I WANT IT!' over and over and over again, in the hopes that you will finally give her whatever toy/piece of candy/block of television time it is that she wants.
And the one that has started to refer to 'her baby' (as she's been calling her soon-to-arrive baby sister) as Caitlin, because that is the name she likes the best.
And the one that, every once in awhile, will bust out with the sweetest 'I love you mommy (or daddy)' that you've ever heard, completely out of nowhere.
What I'm trying to say, I guess, is that we won't be selling her to the gypsies any time soon.
(But also that I haven't COMPLETELY ruled out the prospect, because, seriously, if I have to have the conversation one more time about how YOU SHOULDN'T LIKE POOPING IN YOUR PANTS, YOU WEIRD LITTLE THING, I'd like to have my options open...)
This all sounds pretty familiar. You just need to get her to start yelling NEVER when you ask her to do something she doesn't want to do. You know, like clean up her toys or go to the bathroom.
ReplyDeleteKids are so funny. I have a friend who's little girl (she will be 4 in April) told her day care worker that her mom threw her out of a moving car. And that her favorite show is True Blood. My friend is mortified, but I can't help but giggle. Isn't that terrible?
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