More Changes

The changes are coming thick and fast these days…

We bought her an OkieDog walker thingie which she absolutely adores – she got so excited when we first gave it to her that she would have screaming tantrums when it got stuck and she was unable to move it. She screamed when we picked her up and tried to help her with it too. But wow, was she ever a happy and excited kid pushing it up and down the hall over and over and over.

I know about the over and over and over and over part because I had the handle attachment and was helping keep her on track down the hall, then turning it around for her so she could go back the other way. I must have travelled 2 km by the end of it all!

Anyhow, the change I’m talking about is not a good change. She’s now taken to being binary in her moods: either happy and laughing (which is good) or screaming and crying and having tantrums (which is not so good). It can be as simple as not returning an item to her that she’s dropped or thrown; it can be picking her up and taking her away from something that she would rather be doing; it can be telling her not to touch something she knows she’s not supposed to touch; it can be changing her diaper.

It can be exhausting.

I hope this is just a phase she’s going through. And I hope she goes through it quickly.