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Temper, temper...
January 06, 2006
The green spoon is for playing with during dinner. Mia sits at the table with us during meals and plays with her spoon and sometimes her sippy cup and is usually such a good girl. Depending on her mood, I often feed her some solids before or after we eat.
Last night, she was playing with her green spoon and we finished eating so I started trying to feed her her dinner. Apparently way too much was going on though and I couldn't get her to pay attention. She was looking at the cat, at Daddy, at the big blue ball, anything and everything besides me. I would finally manage to catch her attention for a second and cram a bite into her mouth and then she'd stick her green spoon in her mouth and smear that bite out of her mouth around her face and head. So.... I say guess what Mia, I'm taking the green spoon away. She has the thing in a death grip and I have to pry it out of her little hand. As soon as I've finally wrestled it away and hidden it behind my plate I hear the loudest, angriest wail I've heard since we had to get into the car seat. This is immediately followed by about 10 seconds of breath holding, which is followed by even louder screams. Man, was she MAD! This went on for about 2 minutes when she abruptly stopped and was ready for more food. Oh boy we're not ready for temper tantums yet. I thought we had at least until the toddler years for that!
Posted by Kimberly at January 6, 2006 09:22 AM