Envy

So, the little green monster in ESK has been making an appearance quite often these days. Now that her little sister is moving around (did I mention AMK is crawling now?) and doing all kinds of cute baby things, I think ESK is really getting jealous over the attention lil' sis has been getting.

Most recently, the biggest bone of contention has been AMK's naptime. When I go to put AMK down, ESK wants to follow. Of course, this is totally distracting for AMK. Yesterday, I locked the door to the baby's room and ESK had a total meltdown. She was banging on the door, crying, and hollering all kinds of nonsensical things... until I heard her say this:

"I can't stop looking at your cookie out of the corner of my eye -- it looks so much better than my cookie. Boy, I wish it were mine and not yours."

I was in disbelief when I heard this because she was quoting a book we read to her often called "Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons". The entire page reads as such:

"ENVY means, I can't stop looking at your cookie out of the corner of my eye...."

I guess she was envying AMK's time alone with mama and was expressing it the only way she knew how.

Sigh. I do feel sorry for her. And lately, I have been trying to spend extra special time with her while AMK naps. I think I'm going to plan a mommy & me outing together sometime soon.

Thumbsucker

My ESK is a thumbsucker. We probably should have curbed the problem earlier on. But now she's 3 years old and she depends on her thumb to comfort her to sleep. I think I was a thumbsucker as well when I was a little girl. Do you think this is hereditary, like bedwetting?

Anyway, I finally took action and bought an anti-nail-biting nail polish solution. We painted her nails (she's such a girly-girl) and then I applied a little of the solution at the very end as if I was putting on a topcoat. (I also did my nails and put on a real topcoat.)

It sounds like she has finally fallen asleep, but she has repeatedly been coming out of her room saying that her hands are dirty and that they need to be washed. Poor thing. But on the other hand it is quite funny too. She hasn't made the connection with the nail polish and instead is blaming it on the soap she used at church that apparently wasn't washed off properly.

Lol.

Poor thing.