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.
3 comments:
WOW!!! My jaw dropped when i read how she quoted the whole thing and how she was able to associate the feelings! Amazing! Gosh, I am so glad you blog because I feel like we go through things at such similar pace. I'm sure N will get worse, but he's been starting to show some frustrations about his bro too lately. And has become super needy and clingy with me. I know that it's because I'd been so focused on trying to sleep train the baby that I haven't had the time and energy to give him the kind of attention he needs, but yeah... it's so hard, isn't it? you just feel so pulled in so many directions.
i too shall plan and mommy and me time soon. hope to hear about that soon.
i know that i'm not alone in going through some of the challenges of raising two, but when i hear it from someone i know going through it at the same time, there's incredible amount of comfort and strength that comes from that. thanks... :)
wow!!! i echo yellowinter's amazement in the fact that she could transfer the feeling from the words to a different situation not having anything to do with cookies! we liked that book, too, until G realized that it was actually trying to teach her "life" lessons :P
we can do "big kid" time together when you come visit! or i can babysit the little one while you go out.
whoa! E said that??! sometimes i wish i could be that innocent and honest to communicate my feelings like that. kind of like gmk holding that boy's hand...so precious!
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