Proof

Sometimes I start posts and never finish them, or sometimes I just don't publish them at all. I was looking for something in my older posts and I came across this one that I had titled "the brown-eyed beauty has claws" from about 14 months ago. We always say how Bea is so happy all the time, and that she was always happy. I must have blacked out those times when she made things a little difficult. I guess those times are few and far between in comparison to Olivia. Though, I do have to say that O's attitude has changed A LOT over the last few weeks.

Anyway, here is an excerpt from the blog post that I did not publish. See if you believe it. I don't remember my little happy-go-lucky Bea ever acting out of line, but she did, and reading this I do remember some of it and can distinguishly hear her voice saying some of it:

"Usually I am greeted with a hug and smiles, instead I was ignored. And, she makes it a point to say "Hi, Daddy" when he has already picked her up from daycare and spent some time with her. So, I interject with "Hi Bea!" The response I got made me stop in my tracks. It was "No, I didn't say hi to you. I said hi to daddy!" Oh, lord. And it gets worse...

At dinnertime, I am helping Josh by getting her drink and I kindly ask what she wants - water, milk or juice. She ignores me. I ask her about five times. Finally, I get an "I want lemonade" response. So I get her the lemonade, and as I am putting it in front of her, she says to me, "Mama, you're in my way." Excuse me? This isn't even the end of it...

Around bedtime, she puts a piece of plastic from a plastic bag into her mouth which she knows she shouldn't. I tell her to take it out, as I usually do, and normally she spits it out into my hand or throws it in the garbage. Instead, she runs away from me to her bed. I go after her and put my hand in front of her mouth and ask her to spit it out. What does she do? She pretends she is going to and then all of the sudden I see her chewing and then she does one of those big swallow type motions. Yep, she swallowed it."

She still has these types of moments, but it is short-lived.

Stay tuned for Friday...I'll be posting pics from last night's Halloween Festival at my mother-in-laws school, our pumpkin carvings that will take place this evening, and costumes. There could be multiple costumes for each child. Just a warning in advance...