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December 05, 2006

Stolen Pie

Our weekend was fun. Friday night we decorated a gingerbread house. Saturday we went to dance class and then to our downtown event where they made snow in a fountain and had free horse drawn carriage rides through town. Saturday night was a parade and tree-lighting. Sunday Marc and Signa went out shopping and Will and I played all day.

Yesterday was my La Leche League meeting. Our meeting allows for all the children to go, even those no longer nursing, so I bring Signa. Signa knows that the kids are younger, that it's a meeting, and that she has to be gentle and quiet or she can't go. She was fine last month. This month? Not so good.

She was THAT kid. The kid that no one likes and everyone talks about afterward. She was picking up the babies, taking toys away, not sharing, tattle-telling to the other moms, whining, running through the room screaming and being horrid. All this in front of the kind of parents who speak softly, don't use the word, "NO" and never, ever yell. So finally, I tired of smiling fakely and trying to explain stuff to her so that I didn't look like a bad mom and I just said, It's time to go, between my gritted teeth. I started packing up and she got out of the "trouble chair" I put her in. When I grabbed her arm, she freaking BIT me. That was it. I told her that I was taking away all her toys for 24 hours and we left.

Marc swatted her on the butt when we got home and I told him how she behaved. We just don't know why this is suddenly happening. She is just getting worse and worse. It all seems nap-related, but yesterday's meeting was at 10am. We are going to enforce naps for awhile (we get lazy, because we get busy) and see if it helps. The swatting on the butt doesn't help, so we are going to stop that. If naps don't work, I don't know what to try next.

Thankfully, coffee with one of the moms of a friend of Signa confirmed that it might just be a 4-year-old thing. She is going through a lot of the same things right now. And now Sheri is mentioning a lot of the same. So maybe it's four??? And normal????

And just to show that I do love her and do still find her amusing, here are some Signa-isms.

* M-I-C K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E. On the way to Disneyland, we were telling Signa that when we were kids they had a different Mickey Mouse song. We taught it to her and she liked it. We also told her about the Mickey Mouse Club that was on TV. She wanted to watch it and so we will search out Netflix for it. Anyway, while at Disneyland, we went into Mickey's house in Toon Town and there is a picture of the Mickey Mouseketeers. I showed her and she said, "Which one are you, Momma?"

* Horses and Bugs. When telling Signa that we were going to go on a horse drawn carriage on Saturday, she looked at me like I was insane. I started to explain that "drawn" means pulled and what a carriage is and then decided to just change the words. "We are going to go on a horse buggy ride."

You would have thought I said we won the lottery. And it was up to 89.2 kajillion. "A horse AND a bug?" I stopped her before she started shouting out that she wanted the caterpillar or ladybug or beetle.

*Manda the Snake. Signa loves her Littlest Pet Shop guys and has a snake that she named Manda. We were listening to her play with all her guys and heard this, "They are all asking Manda why she stole the pie. Well, all except this one because he has a dentist appointment." Maybe it's not as funny in writing as it was in person, but I couldn't stop laughing.

*Stinky Breath. Last night Marc and I were and Signa was sitting between us on the couch. She sometimes interrupts (and by "sometimes" I mean every time I open my mouth) so we just talk over her so that she doesn't get to interrupt. She started going on and on about something and then grasped her hand over my mouth. "I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY." Marc asked what and she grinned her silly cute grin and said, "Does my breath smell like hot chocolate?"

Posted by Debbie at December 5, 2006 02:45 PM

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