September 16, 2011

  • Madeleine calls a moon that is about 75% illuminated an "egg moon", because it looks like an egg.  Grant calls it that, now, too.  This morning I pointed out the moon, and she told me it was an egg moon, and then went on to clarify that an egg moon was a full moon that had a crescent taken out of it that we couldn't see.  I thought that was rather clever of her to realize.

    What's not so clever is her awful tantrums that she has been having when I want her to do something she doesn't want to (like shampoo her hair) or when I won't help her with something I know she can do.  I make her do whatever it is, let her scream a bit, then hold her for awhile to calm her down, because otherwise she'd scream for hours. 

    Now Grant wants me... so toodles....