Three Kids and a Dog

Sunday, February 25, 2018

For Once It Was Hailey

For once it was Hailey who got into trouble today. She's usually my good kid - does what I tell her, plays nicely by herself and always listens. Well, she must've woke up this morning and decided she was done being the good kid because she was just bad...all morning long. From waking up too early and then waking me up (for the second day in a row) to refusing to get dressed to making little messes wherever she played.

Peyton and Hailey playing nicely at Lacrosse before the dreaded incident!
Late morning she found me in my room getting ready to try to get in some exercise before I had to start running around for kids' activities. She has a book in hand with a read to me CD in it. "I want to read this book," she says. Not now I say, I'm busy and you haven't cleaned up one mess that I've asked you to clean up all morning (and I need to go do that now before Sadie starts eating the toys she's left out).

"No!" she stomps her foot. "Right now! I want to read." This is where I pretty much lose it on her and tell her that she's not reading until she cleans up and she's going to have to wait for me to be done with what I'm doing but I will read to her later at Austen's lacrosse or when we come back or some other time that day. She doesn't like this answer and says, "I don't even like you!" (All words/phrases that she's heard her big sister say mostly to Austen!) So I leave her to go downstairs and commence my workout as she's screaming and crying. Yes, I walk away from her because even though she's the youngest, she clearly is not getting her way all the time.

Forty-five minutes later I come back upstairs to my room which is torn apart. My bedding is thrown askew, pillows are all over the floor, drawers are flung open and the toilet paper in our bathroom is now puddled in a pile on our floor as she rolled the whole thing out. I mean I've known that Hailey has a temper but I never thought she'd go nuclear when I went downstairs.

She was obviously much calmer when I returned as she took all her frustration out on my room so she was much easier to talk to about her behavior. I made her apologize and take a long time out before loading her into the car for Austen's lacrosse practice.

I thought she was on her way to being better as she seemed a bit tired out in the car from all her rage but that was short lived. While Austen's playing, her and Peyton get into an all out brawl at the arcade at Lacrosse. Hailey tells Peyton not to shoot the deer in the video game (Peyton likely ignores her and shoots it) and Hailey grows frustrated, clobbers Peyton and rips out part of her pony tail.

I'm feeling a replay of Austen when he was 4 (his worse year yet). But I'm ready this time! Bring it Hailey! But for your sake, I hope it's a short lived phase for you!

PS. Austen and especially Peyton were thrilled that Hailey got in trouble today for once it was not one of them!

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