A-tish A-tosh A-razzamatazz*
Posted in mi vida loca on 04. Sep, 2008
My daughter. I’ve told you about her right? Well… I can feel the gray hairs trying to force their way out of my scalp. They have Mia written all over them. 3 year old girls are hard work, full of manipulation and have a certain flair for dramatics. She can turn on tears in a second flat, and I’m not talking a tear here and there.. I’m talking a waterfall full of them.
Tuesday, I pick her up from school- the teachers said she got very weepy when it was time clean up and get ready for home. The teacher tells me, we have a lot of kids crying to not come to school and leave their mom, mine? She doesn’t want to leave school and come home TO mom. 
Wednesday, I pick her up from school – I can hear her SOBBBBBBBING all the way down the hall way… “I DON’TWANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNA GOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOMMMMMMMEEEEEEE” OMG? What!? She rounds the corner and the teacher says… she’s doesn’t go home. (with a snarky little smile, that I may or may not have imagined) At this point, I am embarrassed and I’m trying to calm her down, but more tears are falling and she can’t even breath she’s crying so hard. Ummm. It’s not like she comes home and I lock her in her cage and let the rats & dogs take over and she goes back to becoming a feral child and has to eat scraps of porkfat and moldy bread that I shove through the bars of her cage. I advised the teachers to please not call family services, that she does have quite the nice little home life and not look at me funny.
By the way, my mother thinks this is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny.
*a tish a tosh a razzamatazz.. is a song M leanred in school yesterday, along with jazzhands.. it’s quite the little number that is NOW STUCK IN MY BRAIN!
Fosse!
Wait, you DON’T put her in a cage when she comes home? *quickly consults the parenting manual that recommended caging children*
Well, Melody, if you got off your rearend, put down the bonbons and Cosmo, and actually acknowledged your children, maybe your kids would have a happy homelife. Don’t be such a bitchycakes!
and when do they learn about “spirit fingers”?
Is someone else living in her cage now?
uh oh. I better get mine out of his cage. I didn’t know that was a no-no.
She is quite a ham!
I took Alana to visit a preschool the other day and she was screaming not to leave too. Of course I ended up having to bribe her to get out. Granted I didn’t leave her alone, but I’m thinking we may have a similar incident once she starts.
By the way, now that Mia is in school when do we get together??? Alana asks about Mia all the time!! One day when Mr. Knitpho is home.. we gotta take the girls out in the afternoon.
Oh dear…Oh dear…hope you have better days ahead! Heck – at least she likes preschool!
OMG! Don’t kids just have that special way to make you feel wonderful! Gotta love ‘em!
I have had this delightful experience in the past as well. Bribery is the best means of coping. I always promise a “special snack/drink” in the car. It’s usually a snack they have seen in the grocery and begged for but I wouldn’t buy.
Dole it out in small amounts. Or buy a new cd she loves but ONLY play it when you pick her up. I suffered through a bunch of damned British kids singing “Thomas the Tank Engine” for years, but it got the boys out of school.
My last suggestion is you pick her up and then pop your own earplugs in for the crying ride home!!
It goes away…it will…
I’m in with your mom
She definitely knows how to push your buttons
I can’t wait to see Mia as a teenager 
You are in for it!!!