Things have been a bit trying round here recently, and it's mainly down to the TT's; Terrible Twos and Tommee Tippee, that is. Munchkin has been testing boundaries, which is nice. She is having to learn the hard way, that if you scream for 20 minutes solidly, it doesn't get you what you want. On Sunday, she insisted that the only thing she wanted for tea was a chocolate chip biscuit. Daddy told her she could only have one if she ate her sandwich. She refused, and spent 20 minutes screaming, "Want a biscuit." Daddy won. She eventually ate her sandwich -amazingly, she ate it without deconstructing it in her usual manner- and had a biscuit afterwards. Dummies have been the cause of many screaming fits. At some point in the next year, dummies will be doing a disappearing act. For now, we've told her dummies are for sleeping, and she's still allowed a dummy in the car seat... If she asks for one - I've noticed that she sometimes forgets that she needs one. However, she's been screaming for her dummy at times when she's not allowed to have it. The screaming fits always end with Mummy and Daddy winning and Munchkin turning back into a sweet little girl, but they're not pleasant. I've got a perforated eardrum at the moment and all this screaming isn't helping it...
The Terrible Twos are also causing Munchkin to tell me she doesn't like me from time to time - usually alongside a screaming fit. I don't think this is unusual behaviour as I believe my late mum told me I did this at the age of two. All the same, it's quite disheartening to be told that your only child doesn't like you, even if she has said she loves you and every other family member at another point on the same day.
I've come to the conclusion that Tommee Tippee -other brands of
infant feeding equipment are available- has a lot to answer for. My
daughter has been coming back from nursery with food round her neck for
months. I always blamed the nursery but I now know what the problem
is... Tommee Tippee bibs. The bibs we'd been using until recently
fitted snugly around the neck. We replaced them with Tommee Tippees -the brand that nursery use,
only to discover that they're too loose, even when done up on the
tightest hole.
Tommee Tippee struck again when it came to getting Munchkin
to drink from a normal cup. I tried giving her a TT sippy cup with no
lid. This worked fine for a few weeks but now she insists on having the
lid on just because she knows it exists. I need to buy some child-sized beakers with no lids so that she thinks she's drinking from a "Big Girl Cup". Tommee Tippee will be reserved for her one cup of milk a day, which Angmering Daddy wants to phase out anyway. When I say "beaker", I mean a plastic cup with no handles. I just thought I should be clear since Mrs Bucket and my mother-in-law -who are in no way related- seem to think a beaker is a ceramic cup with a handle. Now, that's what I call a "mug"!
I'm really hoping Munchkin can make it to her swimming lesson this Friday, for the first time this term. We both had ear infections last week -I think I've still got mine- so swimming was out of the question. This weekend, we're off to her cousin, Sweetpea's, birthday party. Sweetpea will be three and I bet her parents are rejoicing that she'll no longer be a TT!
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