This week, Munchkin has mainly been practicing the art of being willful. For weeks we have had such an easy time with feeding and the cleaning of teeth in the evening before bed. This week Munchkin has thrown us a challenge. Picture this. Usually Munchkin sees food, Munchkin opens his mouth, food goes into his mouth and dissapears only to be seen in recycled form much later. This week, Munchkin has been choosing to adopt the "I am too busy to eat stance". This is demonstrated by clamping his gums together and welding his lips shut. Munchkin sees food, Munchkin pretends to be preoccupied with something else like his bib or the strap from his harness. He also thinks grabbing the spoon to try and feed himself is fun.Same goes with bathtime. Munchkin has been very cooperative on the teeth cleaning front. It used to be Munchkin sees toothbrush, Munchkin opens mouth, Mummy cleans teeth, Munchkin babbles. This week Munchkin has clamped his gums together, sealed his lips shut and made "MMmmmmmmm" sounds as soon as toothbrush was in sight.
What Munchkin has discovered is that Mummy is more willful than Munchkin and has had 33 years practice at being a stubborn little madam. And Mummy can be very persuasive when she wants to be. So Munchkin and I have come to a little understanding. He lets me do what he knows I must do and I promise to get it over and done with and leave him be afterwards. Why do I have a sneaky suspicion that this battle of wills will provide for interesting times in the future?
2 comments:
Ha ha!
Emma is a spoon grabber. We find it useful to occupy both hands (her hands not ours) with spare spoons or duplo or whatever else is available. This usually distracts her enough for us to get the food in. You do need lightning fast reactions to dodge the arm waving though.
Today we have mainly been dipping our hands into orange goo. And wiping it all over face afterwards.
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