Good, bad, ugly

Bad:

Amy spent the later morning playing a bit and clinging to her blanket and saying “eat.”

When it was finally time to eat (she’d had plenty of breakfast — as much as she wanted), she took a few bites and then spent the rest of the mealtime crying for her blanket.

This annoyed me.

Good:

I let her down and washed the dishes.

She came over and announced that she was going to poop. I took her to her room, removed the diaper, which just had a smudge on it, and sat her on the potty. She had her blanket to cuddle and we read a book, and plop! Out of her bottom came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar little poop. (Sorry; you get these baby book phrases in your head after awhile; if you didn’t recognize that, it’s from Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar.)

When I informed her what she’d done, she clapped for herself (I joined in) and we continued reading the book.

Ugly:

Not much later, she looked down and saw that the poop was still there, and got Very Upset.

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A little later, we did the “eat”/”no” dance — she would go to her high chair and say up or eat or high chair, but when I’d move to lift her up, or ask her if she wanted to eat, she’d say no, then repeat. I kept washing dishes. Eventually she looked serious about wanting to get up in the high chair, and she let me lift her up, and ate a little more food.