My youngest is a handful at the best off times, but recently Baby seems to have gotten more bolshy, more rebellious and even a bit meaner.
I wonder if it is the result of being the youngest and having to fight to hold
her own. Or perhaps she just inherited some of the spite that seems to
run in my family. Either way, she manages to keep all of us busy.
Currently her busy schedule includes:
Refusing to sit the whole way through any single meal
Turning every
room she walks through upside down
Demanding to help
with the cooking and trying to climb on things to get to the kitchen counter (I
am terrified of her getting near to the cooker)
Insisting on
helping roll out chapatti's and rolling them hard enough to make them stick to
the worktop
Pestering her nan
for sweets as soon as she sees her
Accusing her
brother of having smelly feet
Spilling every
other cup of water she gets her hand on
Refusing
completely to put away her toys
Switching my
laptop of while I am working on it
Opening the taps
in the bathroom and getting her sleeves wet and knocking the loo roll and
towels off of their place (every single time she goes in there!)
Jumping off everything.
The older kids
have complained that they seem to be picking up after her numerous times per
day, so in the end we confiscated most of her toys and put them in a black bag
while she thinks about changing her ways.
The kids have named her Ramona the Pest after the book because of
her hair style and all of her mischief and she seems to like the name.
The girl is lucky
she has those big, innocent eyes and I have a soft spot for fierce girls, or
she would be spending a lot more time on the thinking chair (our kitchen chair).
The good news is,
she finally made a friend after a whole term on playing alone at nursery.
She is a bit of an introvert and likes to be left alone to explore (and wreak
havoc) for stretches of time. Happily this friend is actually real and Baby even knows
her name.
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