Monday, December 15, 2008
I hope it's just a phase
I am repeating this phrase over and over again. Since yesterday, Madi has been acting differently. She's acting more like a toddler who doesn't just smile and coo at Mommy and Daddy anymore. She doesn't eat her dinner and play with her toys like a good girl. She doesn't enjoy the bedtime ritual like she used to. She now screams immediately when she doesn't get her way or can't reach what she wants. She eats only what she can pick up off her tray but then takes it out of her mouth, smiles, and drops it on the floor. She wants to be held constantly but as soon as you pick her up, she wants to get down or crawl up on your shoulders. She thrashes around, throws books and stuffed animals on the floor, then wants them back immediately at bedtime. When you give her said books and animals, they are soon thrown on the floor again. And so the cycle continues...over and over...until she just collapses out of sheer exhaustion. And I do the same shortly thereafter. I hope it's just a phase....
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I hope so too, for your sake!
so, how is our fiesty little darling today? m
It seems that she wants to be at daycare. She behaves much better there and has a better evening at home. Maybe it's the routine thing. Yesterday she went to daycare and she had a much better night.
You're probably right about the routine. Fredrik's been acting up, too, and PEter has been around more and I around a little less. Could be the case. Thanks for having the same situation!
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