Olivia is a sweet little three year old. She's always been my "good" child. She listens and trusts and believes everything I tell her. If I don't want her to do something she doesn't usually do it. If I ask her to do something she almost always does. Life has been good up until this point! She's starting to think for some reason she has her own opinions about things and it's starting to drive me crazy! I know it's a normal part of development, but if I ever find the guy who told her she didn't have to think exactly like me I'll have him hanged!! It started out with little things like what she wanted to eat for dinner. Just FYI dinner is what we call every snack or meal she can't be bothered with technical terms for all meals so they are all dinner.
Yes I do realize that Olivia is wearing no clothing in this picture she has also decided that clothes are not necessary if she doesn't want to wear them.
This is innocent enough and I think I am being completely reasonable when I offer her a bowl of cereal for breakfast. It used to be that she would eat her "dinner" with no questions asked. I would also like you to keep in mind that she has eaten this same type of cereal happily for the past three years.
And when I tell her noodles are not what we eat for breakfast this is what happens
This is how we start almost every morning and I'm pretty sure the little girl is going to waist away to nothing, because she really will stay under that table and cry all day long if I let her. She is relentless and don't tell her this, but I think she could probably win every battle of the wills if it weren't for the fact she is my second child and I have some experience in bribery and distraction!
The other thing Olivia does that drives me absolutely nuts is cry! She cries A LOT!!!! I can't express this enough she will cry about the dumbest things you've ever heard of and usually it's with such conviction you think that someone is kicking a kitten in the next room. Just the other day she was playing in the playroom with her brother and sister. There was no fighting going on because I was just in the next room folding laundry. Next thing I know Olivia is running out of the room to find me full on crying. Tears streaming down her face, snot flying everywhere and slobber dripping from the corners of her mouth. It was an all to familiar sight.
"Mom, Alaina is hitting me and Mason threw a toy at me!" Now I know that this is usually untrue. In Olivia's head it is so accurate that if she knew what it was she would be willing to take a lie detector test to prove that she is telling the truth. I try to let her know it's ok to feel bad if Alaina who in previous posts has been known to pay very little attention to whats going on around her and she probably bumped into Olivia which was perceived by Olivia as a violent act against her. As for Mason, he's one, he flings toys around and acts wild. He doesn't actually do it with the intent of harming his big sister, she just happens to be in the way when he's ready to move on to the next thing. Don't tell this to Olivia because this is what she sees.
This is not an accurate account and I will not bore you with a picture of Alaina and Mason playing alone in the playroom while Olivia fantasies about all of the evil plots her eight and one year old siblings are coming up with. I'm pretty sure she thinks they have it in for her.
I'm sure that eventually she will outgrow this stage of her life. At least I hope she will, if she's doesn't she will need extensive therapy as an adult! She's still my little sweetie no matter how rotten she becomes over the next few years. Once we're out of this phase it's onto the next! Hopefully something a little quieter and less independent is on it's way in our future!!!
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