Eating Myself

Camille was having a snack yesterday. She yelled out "Ow!" and then started whimpering. I asked if she bit her tongue. She angrily pointed at her veggie straw and said "Dat made me eat myself!" I couldn't help but laugh. It makes sense though.

Chloe isms

Sometimes Chloe gets scared at night. But she doesn't say "I'm scared." She yells out "I'm getting the creeps." It makes me laugh, which means I usually go in to help her calm down.

Chloe calls hand sanitizer "hanitizer." Every time she says it I think, why doesn't everyone call it hanitizer? It makes so much sense.

Stubborn

Chloe can be so stubborn. I am currently pulled off on the side of the road. I told her we would not move until she buckles her seat belt. I already took away her electronics. Now we're just sitting here in stale mate. It's a good thing I have a book because we've been sitting here 10 minutes thus far. She can't have toys and I've told her I can't "hear" her till she puts on her seat belt. She seems quite content to wait it out. We'll see how long this takes. I'm not sure what my other options are except yell...and sometimes I am just not in the mood to yell.

She tried to negotiate. "I'll only put it on if you give me back electronics." I told her that's not the way it works. She's tried to talk to me 4 times now.

Oh man. She is so cute and so loving...and also so stubborn.

Post Script added 2/28.
The other day she wanted hot lunch but I had already made her lunch so I told her no. When I wasn't looking, she took the lunch box out of her back pack (twice). She was kicking and screaming about it as we left for school. She said "I'm just not going to take my lunch out of my bag."

Well her teacher must get lunches out. Chloe sat at lunch with her lunch box on front of her and refused to eat. She sat in silent protest for 30 minutes while everyone else ate. It's not like I was there...not sure who she's proving a point to. It's just a matter of principle I guess. So in the afternoon she was starving and her teacher let her eat her lunch.

I am TERRIFIED of this girl as a teenager. She is going to be one I have to "suggest" things to and then hope she makes the right choice.

Another example. It was a "dress up like it's a rainy day" day at school. She wore her rain boots. I tried to put her tennis shoes in her backpack. She freaked out and took them out. I explained she didn't have to wear them, they were just there in case she got tired of wearing her rain boots during the day. It was an ongoing argument (escalating...I need to remember to let her learn lessons the hard way). I finally took them out of her bag. As she's leaving she says she wants them in her bag again...so we put them back. 

At the end of the day I pick her up and ask if she ever used them. She says she did! I say "oh great, well then you're probably really glad you kept them in your bag." She says, "no, I still wish I hadn't." There is no winning with this one!