Mireya has a built-in alarm that notifies her immediately if I'm doing something important and I need to be left alone. It must have gone off loud and clear for her, when I went into the office to do my schoolwork tonight, because the next thing I knew she was banging on the door saying, "MOM! MOM! MOM! MOM! MOM!" Umm... distracting much!?
She is so cute and I want nothing more than to snuggle her in the evenings, but I know for a fact that if I had been out there with her, she would have completely ignored me. The only reason she wanted me, was because I was busy. I know all children do this, but I fail to understand why.
Examples: If I go into the restroom, she's banging on the door needing me immediately or the world is going to end. (My bladder has developed anxiety!) If I answer the phone, she wants to scream in my ear (and the ear of whoever I happen to be talking to) right up until I get off the phone, and then she gets busy playing quietly with her toys. When I try to start lunch and I need both hands, she is desperate to be held. NOW. Right NOW! If I need two seconds to do anything, she had ten things she needs that she didn't need, well, two seconds ago.
OH LORDIE!!! How well I remember those days!!! GAAAAHHHH!!!! I remember having a hell of a migraine one day when Canyon was about 18 mos...l was laying on the couch and he was supposed to be outside with DADDY...next thing I know, WHAM! someone has dropped a fist down right between my eyes. I opened them to see Canyon standing there, two binkies in his mouth, one in each hand. He was mad that I was not UP!! I was not happy.
ReplyDeleteHe used to HATE when I would put my sunglasses on top of my head...for some reason that drove him crazy and he would yell in baby talk at me til I took them off my head. WEIRD!!! Or he would grab them off my head and throw them. He didn't like when I wore them because he couldn't see my eyes. LOL!!
And girl...OOOO...the worst??? Traveling out of town!!! If we stopped overnight, we absolutely had to have meeyuk for him to drink. He could not go to sleep w/o a bottle or something to drink his meeyuk (milk). Pops had to get up at midnight once and find a 7-11...when he got back, guess who was asleep? It was a nightmare if we didn't have cold meeyuk for him at bedtime!!! And the binkies...always had a mouthful a couple in each hand. We were buying binkies all the time...I have a pic of Canyon sitting in a chair w/3 binkies in his mouth...
Even NOW, he does NOT like to feel like he's missing something. We close the doors between 'the game room' and the living room, and he will come out and open them, because he doesn't want to miss ANYTHING. Even with his headphones on, he's like Radar O'Reilly...he knows when we are talking about stuff and will come right out and want in on the conversation...