As Ali gets older and her language expands, she is able to
express her needs and wants more clearly.
It is pretty funny actually. She
doesn’t like it when anyone gets upset with her. If she dumps out a board game or makes a mess
of something, I say “No Ali, don’t make a mess with that.” Sometimes she gets
teary and says, “No Mad, OK?” and insists you tell her that you aren’t mad with
her before we can all move on.
Ali is also very polite. She uses her please and thank yous and often says "sorry" if she spills something or gets herself dirty she says, "sorry mommy, sorry!!"
She also has specific ideas on what she wants to wear. Now that she is potty training, she has 6
pairs of undies, three she likes and three she doesn’t like. If you try to put on one of the undies she
doesn’t like, she said, “no these undies, OK?” She also wants to wear certain
clothes. If I pick a shirt she doesn’t
want she disappears and comes back with a different shirt and says, “No wear
that shirt for Ali this one Ali shirt, OK?”
OK ends every demand and the arms are usually wildly
flailing around. Very expressive with
her hands. She also pushes your legs or
pulls your hand to show what she wants to do/have. She manages to get her point across.
She often takes my hand, pulls me over to the couch and says
“Mommy, sit, OK?” hands me the remote and says “NAE NAE” or something that I’ve
learned is “Wildest Dreams” because she wants me to put on one of these two
favorite videos of hers. After you put
them on, she pulls on your arm and says, “Dance Mommy!”
But maybe the most fun is when I’m trying to sleep in (past
7AM) on a weekend and she comes barreling into the room (Luke usually gets her
up as they are both part of the early morning crew). She picks up my sippers that are next to the
bed and shoves them in my face along with my glasses and says “Mommy, up. Ali eat!”
And in those times where things don’t go her way, or we say no
and she is frustrated, she sometimes hits herself in the head in
frustration. Not hard but just that raw
emotion. We usually laugh at this which
probably doesn’t make the situation better.
