This is not the post I had planned to write.
But I am MAD.
Ohhhh you don't want to be a freckle faced 3 1/2 year old right now.
Of course if you WERE a freckle faced 3 1/2 year old, you wouldn't have broken your baby doll bed and then taken the broken pieces and colored all over them.
And your Mommy wouldn't be livid and telling the internet how livid she really is over a baby doll bed on her blog. A blog she usually likes to use to uplift, entertain and add just a little bit of the occasional scandal to your life.
I am alternating between the worlds called "My Wit's End" and "Overflowing With Neverending Loving Kindness and Heart Shaped Bunnies" with her. I can't keep up with the changing moods. And don't tell me it will be worse when she's 12. I worked with Junior Highers for 7 years, I know it will get worse and that worse will also involve boys and mean girls and hormones. I don't want to hear all that.
Instead, I want to hear that it won't always be like this (lie if you have to.) I want to hear that those of you who know and love my daughter can still find redeeming qualities in her. I want those of you who don't know my daughter to say that you have always wanted to get to know her because she is so cute. And so freckle faced. And dressed like a farmer.
Even though right now all I want to do is call her a Poo Poo Diaper Baby.
I love that she says "she will play ponies forever." I love her charm, her wit, and her amazing melt your heart smile.
ReplyDeleteIt will get better. Honestly, I don't have to lie, because it really will. I wouldn't say 12 is worse, it's just different. Every age is different, and it comes with it's own ups and downs. Cherish the moments, because some of our angriest moments, transcend into fond memories, that we laugh about down the road... WAY down the road :), but none the less.
Of course I could tell you it gets worse. But I don't have to lie to tell you how much fun you get to have with her the older she gets. Laughing over jokes and movies, agreeing which boys and movie stars are hot. Sweet and bitter tears and hugs. That voice everyone thinks is yours when she answers the phone. Watching every new growth with pride and your heart swelling until it hurts. Having a daughter is painful and difficult and one of the most beautiful rewards life hands you. Sure it gets worse. Then there's the rainbow, always the rainbow. And Lucy starts out such a beautiful rainbow, you have so much to look forward to. Now scold her and hug her. I could never stay mad at that face. : )
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't get worse. There are trying things about each stage, but they aren't worse. Strong willed, chatter boxes with a knack for getting into trouble, turn out to be wonderful teenagers and adults. I mean, look at my daughter........lol.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to tell you that back in the day, when Lori was little, soap on a rope was popular. Lori had bought one for her daddy for Christmas. She was a little over two. She got mad at her daddy one day so she upwrapped the gift and took a bite out of it. In her little mind, that fixed him!
ReplyDeleteIt won't get worse. It will go up and down and up and down and of course it'll end on an up. If you want to sometime we can trade. Lucas likes to punch his brother and climb the counters to eat candy oh and dump water all over my bathroom floor so theres two inches of water to splash in. At least Lucy is so absolutly adorable when she does something. Now if we can only keep Wally and Ella from growing into a troublesome phase.
ReplyDeleteOh man.
ReplyDeleteI love Lucy.
I'm sorry that she's a Poo Poo Diaper Baby but, I mean, come on, she's a Poo Poo Diaper Baby who is dressed like a farmer. I just can't resist that.
I think this is one of those times that it's a good thing that you don't breathe fire. :) But don't eliminate Lucy just yet....Isabel would be lonely.
ReplyDeleteAt around the same age I decided to color big, thick, black stripes all over my sister's Baby Tenderlove doll with a magic marker. Cuz I wanted a tiger doll. I totally remember it. And occasionally I still hear about it at holiday dinners. You may be mad about it now, but you'll all be laughing at the funny memories in 10 years or so. :-)
ReplyDeleteAmy Lynne balded all Erica Anne's Barbie dolls. It was not a fun moment at the time, but now....it's a story from their childhood. Just write them down and think...this too shall pass.
ReplyDeleteCalvin has always been like that. He destroys everything he touches and sometimes I feel like destroying him. But I have to say I love him more every day and he is starting to grow out of (some of) his naughtiness and I am frustrated with him less of the time. At the very least you can look forward to full day K in a couple of years!!! On a more serious note-- You are a good mom. I'm sure it will get better. And lucy is darling and a good girl at heart.
ReplyDeleteShe's the face of my business cards. She can't be a poo poo diaper head.
ReplyDeleteEspecially because she has such cute freckles!
(And I empathize, my poopoo diaper head isn't even 2 yet!)
Our little girls are so a like, but don't we love them and their sweet faces = ).
ReplyDeleteI would like to color all over the broken broken peices of my life too. Even if I was the one that broke them to begin with. :)
ReplyDeleteLucy is sweet and endearing! She is the epitomy of a little girl being a little girl! She is living life to it's fullest--something you will be sooo proud of when she is bigger! She will probably be a leader or determined to succeed in whatever she does. You are sooo not the only Mommy who wants to 'Do I don't know what' to their kid sometimes!!
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