Lillie is at it again...In an attempt to exert her inconsistent, and needy independence, she has succeeded in bewildering and exasperating me to no end!
Lillie LOVES to be held and to sit on our laps. This is a new thing to Trev and myself since Parker never sat still for even a second. Lillie on the other hand will take every opportunity to wiggle herself into our laps so she can suck her thumb and hold her blankie. Usually, while she is sitting in my lap I use the time to put her hair up in a ponytail or this week's latest craze, pigtails! So, this morning while I am making breakfast, she begs me to put in pigtails. She brings me 2 hairbands and a brush and even though I was in the middle of making eggs, which have the potential to burn fast, I sat down to put her hair in pigtails. After having them in for about 1 minute she decides to pull the right side out. Assuming she wanted them out (and the fact that she looked like a wild child with one ponytail in and her blond fly away hair sticking out of her head on the other side), I went to remove the left band to which I received a very loud shriek proceeded by her running and diving behind the couch and burying her face in the carpet ( see a theme developing here when she gets frustrated??) I decided not to fight this war since I had to bring Parker to school and run some errands. I let her eat breakfast with her one ponytail and crazy hair, I even let her in the car with the one ponytail. Figuring she forgot about the whole hair incident, when we arrived at school, I reached over to remove the left hairband and once again I was greeted by shrieks and protests (no couch present so she couldn't run). Okay, fine... we dropped Parker off with her one pigtail and I just smiled cheerfully as the other moms looked at me sympathetically understanding the dilemma I had on my hands. I draw the line at Walmart though. We already live in a town where it is acceptable for grown men to wear camouflage overalls to shop and women wear rollers in public and chew tobacco...my daughter is not going to wear one ponytail and have crazy wacked out hair. I put her in the shopping cart and while handing her some animal crackers, I sneakily go to take the left ponytail out.... She must have bionic toddler super hand/eye coordination or something b/c out of nowhere she flings her crackers and swats at my hand!!! In my stunned and surprised state, I tell her "No Lillie, we need to take your hair out." If you can believe it, this is where the exasperating part comes in. She then grabs my arm and wants me to take my ponytail holder off my wrist. I hand it to her and she shoves it back at me and starts frantically pulling at the side of her head that no longer has a ponytail. She calmly let me put in a ponytail to match her cute other one and we pleasantly went on our way to grocery shop. No protests. No complaints. No pulling at her hair. Nothing. We had several people even comment saying, "What a cutie" and "You must be a very very good girl." I wanted to correct them but instead just tugged on her pigtails and nodded and agreed, "Yup, she is a very good girl... most of the time."
Again, a handbook would be nice. Although, I am thinking a support group for Moms of little girls would suffice for the moment.
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Ha ha! The world of toddler fashion, especially when it comes to hair! I have been there a while, and am just used to the lost hair accessories and the pulling out of very cute braids and pigtails. I haven't received quite the protest yet from Jovey about it, but she finds other things to get quite upset about, as you know. Hang in there! She is definintely trying to push limits, as all kiddos do. Good thing they are super cute, huh? :-)
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