You're Kidding Me, THAT was the Honeymoon Period???

And now it's over. Is it possible? Could those first 6 months of chaos have really been our honeymoon period? And I was so looking forward to the 6 month marker - silly me! I thought it would be all down hill from here.

All of the hard work to get to this point has paid off in some ways. Yes she now sits at the table during dinner (still spills her milk nearly every night because she is being silly waving her arms around and not paying attention). Yes she holds my hand in the street. But her attitude is horrible!! She is a pouter. She is a screamer. We are entrenched once again in an epic battle for control. I can't even go into it right now. But I will. Once I get my thoughts straight.

The reason that I say the Honeymoon is over is because all the power battles that we once had have changed. Now it is her personality coming out. I really can't explain it. But there is a difference. I think the difference is is that now she knows what the rules and expectations are and she is choosing not to obey them. Here's a small little for instance and then I have to go pick up my little angel at school and I will post about this later and hopefully more eloquently.

The other night I was getting her ready for bed. She had taken too long eating dinner and there wasn't time for her to go outside with her brothers anymore. So she was mad. We were sitting on the ground in her room putting on PJ's and she burped ( a real loud stinky burp) right in my face. This was probably not on purpose (But I bet you that if she could have burped on command she would have). So I good naturedly said something like "Oh my! That was a big one. Say excuse me." She refused. She shut her mouth and stared at me like... ( I would have said like a complete stranger but remember she LOVES complete strangers). She knows that we say excuse me after burping. She KNOWS it. She's done it before, without me prompting. She didn't say it. She wouldn't say it. On purpose. She was immediately put in bed without even letting her brush her teeth. No books, no cuddles. I was too mad.

So before we were fighting over control on things like swallowing her food. Now we are fighting over control on obeying rules that she knows. I am getting a lot of "no's" and "I don't want to's" . And then when I make her do something she doesn't want to do (like get in the car to go pick up a brother from somewhere), she throws a fit.

I know I said I wasn't going to go into this right now. So I will organize my thoughts and come back later.