Miss Amber, Mia's teacher

I was driving Mia home yesterday, and asked the usual questions.. what did you do today? what was for lunch?
"Miss amber was mad at me."
"Why, baby??"
"The spaghetti." (which she now says correctly, by the way)
"What happened?"
"Miss amber was mad at me...."
"Did you make a mess?"
"Yeah."
I didn't get the full story out of her, but I told her I'm sure Miss Amber still loved her. She mentioned it AGAIN on the way to school this morning. She was very pouty when she said that Amber was mad.
So I walked into school, and as I placed more diapers in the changing room, Amber said, "OH! i forgot to tell you about the events at lunch yesterday..."
I looked at Amber. "She told me! She said you were mad at her..."
"Aww!! She was sad because I got mad at her??"
"Yes, tell me what happened."
Apparently Mia, the picky princess, didn't touch her spaghetti. All the kids get the same amount, and when they're done that's it, lunch is over. Another kid wanted more spaghetti, and when everyone was finished, Amber asked Mia if she wanted hers. She shook her head, no. Amber put the spaghetti on this other kid's plate, and Mia THREW herself back onto the floor in a total tantrum, "NO, that's MINE! MY SPAGHETTI!" Poor Amber rushed to push the spaghetti back onto Mia's plate, and she calmed down.
"Are you going to eat it?"
"No."
"Can I give it to carlos?"
Starts throwing her fit again. So Amber told her that she was going to sit in the chair until she took one bite of spaghetti, now also feeling bad that she had put it on Carlos's plate and had to take it back. Sure enough, she she sat there... for a while, and finally she took the bite. (how Mommy Dearest, huh?) So when she told me the story this morning, it all made sense. She said it's TOTALLY not like her to behave that way, she doesn't usually cry out of frustration or because she's made to share something (!! not the way I would've thought...), so it was weird for her. She gave Mia a big hug and said she still loved her. All is right in the world now.

Another funny

Forgot to type this one up, it's cute.

Mia got 2 shots at her 3-year checkup, one in each thigh. Flu and pneumochgoaiusdhghgwhateverthefuck. She screamed for a minute or two, then got her little plastic egg with a sticker inside and a yellow lollipop.

About a week later, I was picking her up from school. I said, "Come on, sweetie, let's go home."

"NO, I don't WANT to go home."

"Where do you want to go?"

"I want to go to the doctor."

I guess yellow lollipops win against shots. Who knew?

HILARIOUS!

Ok, so I can't believe I forgot to tell Craig this story too... it was so funny!! Yesterday we were bored. Les, Wendi & Jake were sick, so was Michelle, everyone else wasn't around. So I took Mia to the mall in UTC and then afterward I asked if she wanted to go to a playground. it was GORGEOUS outside, so why not? Of course she wholeheartedly said YES.

We went to a great playground near Les & Wendi's house that she'd shown me. There's a metal play structure that is like a little pretend car. Back seat, front seat, and 2 steering wheels in the front. We get to the playground and Mia heads STRAIGHT for the car. Bear in mind that this story will ring true for those of you who know our afternoon routine; I pick her up from daycare with a snack & something to drink for the ride home.)

She runs toward the car, "YOU sit in the back, Mommy!"
"Ok."
She slides into the "driver's" seat, "clicks" her seat belt and tells me to do mine. Nice.
I'm sitting behind her.
"Ok, Mommy, do you want some juice?"
"um... sure."
She reaches in front of her and pretends to get juice and hand it back to me in the back seat.
"Ok, do you want goldfishies or pretzels?"
"Goldfishies please," I said, stifling major hysterics. This was totally Mia doing ME.
She passes back the bag of goldfishies. "....what do you saaaaaay???"
That's it, I almost fell off my seat laughing. "Thank you!"
"You're welcome."
They say this is the age where they pretend... this is more like the age where they do impressions! That girl even gave ME a time out the other day! What a character.

Puss N' Boots

I just had to get the Halloween info down here for everyone. It was Mia's first trick or treating experience; she was mostly excited to get candy.

It was hilarious. She would get to the door... "Ok, knock?"
"Yeah, baby.. Knock hard!"
Two or 3 gentle knocks.
"Knock again?"
"go! Harder!"
Better knocks. SO cute. Then they came and she just gasped with delight because they had a dish full of candy, she
tried to walk into their house because she thought we were coming over to play, and when I said, "What do you say?" to prompt her to say "trick or treat" like we'd practiced.. She just said, "Thank you!" Which was great too. And very funny. She also said a hearty "HAPPY HALLOWEEN!" as we left the houses.

Her favorite thing were the lit up pumpkins & decorations. She did like going out at night.. In hindsight I should've gotten her a glowstick or flashlight or something. Oh well, it was all of about 1/2 an hour, and she probably would've wanted to sleep with the glowstick.

When we got home, I let her pick out one thing, it was a tootsie pop. Then I took the bucket & put it on the counter.
2 seconds after that... "HEEEEYYY!! That's MIIIIIINE!!"
I dumped the candy on the counter. There really wasn't much, 2 lollipops, a Reese's stick, a mini-Hershey bar, 2 tootsie rolls, a mini-Snickers, a mini-Almond Joy and a tiny bag of gummy bears that Deeba her babysitter gave her last
night.

I gave her the empty candy basket... All hell broke loose. I dealt with about a 5-minute tantrum that felt like 20
minutes, and stated (looking at her with a licked lollipop in her hand), "I'm taking the lollipop away if you can't get a hold of yourself. Stop crying or I will take the lollipop away." After reinforcing this a couple of times, she stopped crying. Proof positive that she isn't totally out of control. She ate the tootsie pop very happily & stickily (probably a few carpet hairs & such in it).

She had a ball. This morning she was content to eat her cereal and go to school. Even though she was up at 6:20 AM... she has not adjusted to daylight savings time... surprise surprise. Wonder how long this will take!