Funny Story

Hallie (and I'm sure all kids) has spurts of being really stubborn about silly things. The other night we were fighting about her not being able to give the full blown good night rigmarole to Mom.

I tried sitting in the corner, taking away marbles (towards a reward), pinches on the bum, etc etc... She became increasingly hysterical with the shaking and clapping and feet stomping and snot running. Finally things escalated into me threatening the binki.

For those of you who know, or don't know, Hallie has to have a binki to go to sleep, and she loves it. I found an extra one (not the only one, I'm not that mean), and got a pair of scissors to make my point. I warned her a few times, then hacked away. She lost it, and Mom came in to do damage control.

(Side note, earlier that day, Bree had printed out a picture of Cinderella, and Hallie had colored it nicely and was very proud of it. She brought it to work when they came to pick me up, and she showed me it a number of times that night.)

After a few minutes of cool-down, Hallie became calm enough to talk again. She told me to put it back on. I tried to explain that it was gone, no coming back. She didn't get it and so Mom said that it was like when you cut up a piece of paper, you can't put it back. She straightened right up from her defeated, crumpled hugging of Mom and leaned across Bree's shoulder and leveled a little finger at me, with a fierce scowl on her face, "Did YOU (little finger jab) cut up my Cinderella picture?!?"

I had to leave I was laughing so hard.