Miss Lily

Over the course of the last six months Lily has changed so very much. Six months ago she was a difficult child. She had terrible fits of screaming at least once an hour. She ran away into the street, escaped from the house, if her feet touched the ground she took off. Screaming and running that was our sweet little Miss Lily.

Now she is the complete opposite. I took her shopping today and she was an angel. She helps me get what we need and places it in the cart. She never runs off. She was even tired and didn't have a fit at all. We spend our days reading, coloring, doing puzzles and dancing. She gets through her entire gymnastics class following directions and not throwing fits. What caused this miracle transformation?

Honestly I think it is a combination of a lot of things. I have worked very hard with behavior modification and with eliminating all of the hidden sources of wheat and corn from her diet. Perhaps due to all the work and effort I have put forth in those areas I feel like they must be at least partially responsible for the change. Then there is the fact that she is older and more mature, she has learned to talk.

But, last week when Jeff was out of town for a brief four day trip, she went back to her old self. Normally he spends only one or two hours with her per day. But, his not being there to tuck her in at night had this horrific effect on her disposition. By the time he came home she was having fits all day over every little thing. It was absolutely driving me crazy. Every time he called me instead of asking about his grand trip to Korea I went on and on about the screaming.

About two hours before we went to the airport to pick up Daddy I made the mistake of telling Lily that Daddy was coming home today. I told her we had to clean up and then we would go to the airport and get daddy. Normally I can't do any type of housework without the help of sweet little Miss Lily. She "helps" me with the dishes, vacuuming, everything. Instead she went and put on her shoes (never done that before) put on her jacket (never done that before, knocked the entire coat rack to the ground to get her jacket). She came to the kitchen where I was washing dishes and said, "let's go". And she was ready. I convince her to clean up the house first. Then we went to the airport, and got Daddy! Yeah, you should have seen the child's face.

The next day Daddy let me have a break from sweet little Miss Lily. She was an angel. Laughed and played with her daddy. Every five minutes he kept telling me how sweet she was and how much he enjoyed taking care of her. I told him I am going to go away for a few days. He said, ok no problem. Can I come and visit you?

In other Miss Lily news... She is not potty trained. I tried a couple of times but she was so very much against it and we were working on so many other behavior issues that I put it off. She comes into the bathroom with me and sits on her potty while I use the toilet and we talk about it. Everytime I change her diaper I tell her next time maybe you would like to go pee-pee in the potty instead of your diaper. I tell her then she can wear her Care-Bear panties. Now she has decided that she no longer wants to wear a diaper at all. If you come anywhere near her with a diaper she gets so upset. She only wants to wear her panties. Yet, she has never used the potty. So when she wears her panties, well you do the math. I don't want to tell her no she can't wear her panties because that seems like a huge step in the right direction, but I really get tired of cleaning up pee and well you know off the carpet. I also have a pee cat who refuses to pee in her litterbox and a pee dog who pees whenever she is upset at me, like when I look at her wrong. I am thinking of changing my name to pee-girl. Today we bought 12 new pairs of panties that sweet little Miss Lily picked all by herself and we are going to give this a go, wish me luck.