Enabling The Addiction!!!!!
So those of you who know Kenzie pretty well, know that she has these little obsessions e.g. Stuffed animals, Duckies, her boys, and doing EVERYTHING herself. So most of it I just chalk up to her being 3 and everyone just keeps saying it's a stage thing! Well Kenzie also likes one more thing ALOT and that is PINK, no she is not even just obsessed, she is Addicted! I am not joking, pink rules our world.......her plates, her bowls, sippy cups, hair bows, nail polish, and the newest thing is her underwear! When you buy packs of underwear they come 3-5 in a pack and usually one of each color. Well I had got her some Princess undies for Christmas and only 1 pink pair out of the bunch, SHIT. Well at 1st it was not such a big deal, but as the days and weeks went on everyday it was a battle of wills, b/c she wanted to wear that pink pair EVERYDAY! I had to explain the she wore those yesterday and they were dirty, we have to pick a NEW pair every single day! So then she didn't want to take her pull up off in the morning. So being the bad person that I am, I was so tired of the battle and went to Target and slyly took every pink pair of underwear out of each package and into 1, I ended up with 7 pink and all the other packs had 2 of the same color! I seriously felt bad as I was doing it, but guess what I don't even have to ask Kenzie anymore to change into her undies in the morning, she just does it!

Adam seems to think sometimes I make life more difficult than it needs to be, If you give Kenzie the wrong plate or bowl that she doesn't want that day, it is immediate melt down Tantrum. So we decided to just tell her to pick out which one she wants each time. O.K. that's great and all, but come on sometimes I am doing a million things and she is not listening, so I just pick one and put it on the table. Yesterday, lunch time, (keep in mind that all of our plates have some sort of pink in them) I gave her a white plate w/ pink polka dots....Good right, not so much she freaked out and said she doesn't like white!!! Are you KIDDING me! I sometimes just get so frustrated I make her use, where as Adam would just switch it. See what I mean we enable her Addictions!! And to make things worse I read in my Parenting Magazine, that you should embrace you child's obsessions. It means they are very focused and observing things in life, I want my kids to be focused, but let's be real I am just too damn tired. But you gotta love them!!