Ok, yesterday was not so good. We had plans at 3pm to meet one of Claire's friends from school and her super nice mom at the pool. At about naptime... 1 ish, i told meg it was time to go down for her nap and that if she did not take a nap we would not be going to the pool. So, I put her to bed in my room - seperate of Emma so they wouldn't keep each other awake (Claire unfortunately does not take naps anymore).
At about 2:30 I went in to my bedroom to wake her up so we could go to the pool. It had been peace and quite for me for about an hour and a half. I walked into the room and got about knocked out from the smell of nail polish. Meg was not in the bed. I did however see wrappers of torn apart bandaids everywhere. She had destroyed a whole box of Barbie bandaids. Those things are not cheap by the way. To get a character on there you are paying high dollar. The bandaids were all over my bed and the floor. When I looked a little further I saw Meg on top of the sink near Dan's medicine cabinet. That is where she got the bandaids. It also looked as if Dan (who had painted their nails hot pink a few days before) did not put the polish back under my child proof cabinet where I stash it all. Yup - he left it right where the monkey could climb and get it. At first, I had no idea where the polish was. After I freaked out and got her down from the sink I noticed she had spilled nearly the whole bottle on my comforter and sheets. Yup, they're ruined.
The hardest part for me was sticking to my threat. We were not able to go swimming now since I had warned her - no nap - no swimming. I have never seen her cry so hard in her whole life and I've never had to alter our plans because they've acted up. This was a first and it was so sad. She almost hypervenalated for an hour when I told her I was taking Claire & Emma after daddy got home. How could I punish Claire & Emm for what Meg did? Anyway - yesterday was traumatic and I'm glad it's over. Her heart was broken as we left for the pool...
On a brighter note, she did much better today. I went in and checked on her about 15 minutes after I put her down for nap. She had only destroyed about half a package of bandaids. Why is it so hard to get through to a toddler? Ok - so tonight I am cleaning out that cabinet!
2 comments:
oh no! we have the same issue with bandaids- i pretty much cant keep them in the house or they go through an entire package in an hour.
OMG, I am laughing at the band-aids and the fact that she did it two days in a row! But that is so sad about her being heart-broken about missing the pool trip. You did the right thing, but it's so hard sometimes!
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