Monday, October 15, 2007

Annie's Issues

Annie's disposition has been pretty reliably sunny lately, and I'm enjoying it. She (mostly) asks nicely for things, gives spontaneous hugs, says "thank you," helps out, giggles and plays with Jemma, has fun at school, and generally is interesting to be around. However, just for fun, today's exceptions:

Within 30 seconds of getting in the car with us on the way home from school today, was beside herself with annoyance and was shouting at Jemma to "STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!" Poor Jemma was just saying, "mamamamamamama" over and over in a very sweet, quiet voice.

Had a five-minute conversation before her bath tonight about how she doesn't like arms because they have hair on them. ??? She repeatedly insisted that hair doesn't belong on arms and said, "Get it off, Mommy." I had to list off everyone in the whole wide world who had hair on their arms ("Aunt Connie?" "Yes." "Grammy Freriks?" "Yes.") So bizarre.

After asking for her Daddy various times throughout the day, refused to let him anywhere near her during the bath/brush teeth/read story part of the evening. I had to do everything, and then he was graciously allowed to come in and sing the night-night song.

There has also been a lot of loud, public "What smells stinky?" and informing me that she does not like someone's face (again - ???). I think she's only days away from asking a stranger if they have a baby in their tummy. I can only wonder what tomorrow's issues might be . . .

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