bye bye birdie

  My sweet little Kennedy is a girly girl through and through. Exactly like her sister, she loves to play dress up, wear high heels, put lipstick on, you get the point.  For the last 2 agonizing weeks, every morning she has had a complete melt down, crocodile tears and all.  Ask Cole about this, he'll tell ya! She wants to pick out her outfit, which usually is a dress.  Okay before you jump to conclusions and think that I should just let her, let me eliaberate.  She wants either a sundress (that she will not wear a shirt under or a jacket over or tights/leggings) or shorts and a t-shirt.  The child has never worn a pair of socks with a pair of any kind of shoes since she was about 1.  She wants "flips" or her "heels".   I do not know what I am going to do when the snow comes.  It is getting cold here. I am not going to have my child walking around in a sundress when it is 50 degrees outside. I am not ready for the looks or the judgement calls people throw my way.  I have even let her pick a shirt and I pick the pants, or she picks the pants and I pick the shirt. It doesn't matter, sheer hysterics. That is just the morning.  Throughout the day she will go into her room and take 2 or 3 shirts out, maybe put one on. Change her pants and leave a couple on the floor. Pull the bins our her closet and they dump out as she is pulling them out.  Than there is the dress-up bin in the playroom.  Dresses, leotards, tutus, high heels, etc. Again she can change her own clothes. I can't take it anymore. Some days fine, but everyday , no.

 My solution - bye bye clothes. I took all of her clothes out of her drawers and out of the bins in her closet. I even took all the dresses out of her closet. I know I am mean, like I haven't heard that before.  Oh boy, was she mad. "No my clothes bye bye", delivered in the highest shrek imaginalbe. I just did this today so I am not sure how this will go!

On a lighter and exciting note.Something else of Kennedy's went bye bye- her diapers!  Yeah baby! My baby is P-O-T-T-Y-T-R-A-I-N-E-D.  That's right, uh-huh, for real! She is doing so good. She will go to the bathroom and when she is done she will say "I candy" and I say "o.k." and than she says " I rock"!!  It is so funny!  It is so nice not to have to change a diaper anymore, but with all things there comes a reality.  This one is that my BABY is not a baby anymore, a sad reality for me.  Although, there is the possibility of a new purse, being that I no longer need a "diaper bag" and have freed up that diaper fund! 

We have long had problems with our pantry.  The day she learned to open a door she was in the pantry climbing the shelves and pulling down whatever she could get her little paws on. It got really bad, she would empty boxes of ceral and step all over them or pour sugar all over the floor, etc.  I finally got smart and put a lock on the door.  That helped  A LOT, but everyday the door gets left  unlocked at sometime or the other.  It's like radar - she knows.  She goes into the pantry takes all the snacks out of the snack bin and puts them into the Spider Man lunch box. There are 3 other lunch boxes in there, but she always takes the Spider Man one. And always someone goes in there and comes out hollering "mom, wheres all the snacks?" .  I go in there and sure enough, the snack bin is empty.  Sometimes she has just set the lunch box on the shelf and other times she has taken it somewhere.



Oh the days of a 2 year old!  All of the other ones have been much worse at the 3. I am thinking that I may need some serious therapy after she gets done with me!