Meagan is driving me nuts with her contradictory behavior lately. She seems to not be able to make up her mind about things, and then gets upset when she doesn’t get what she wants, or I don’t understand what she’s saying. It‘s very confusing. For example, today she asked me for a bagel with cream cheese. So I got out the bagels and cream cheese, and started putting some on the bagel. Then she starts crying that she doesn’t want cream cheese. I verified that she didn’t want the cream cheese. I was annoyed, but figured that I’d eat the bagel instead, and gave her a plain one. She got made, threw the plain bagel across the table, and said she wanted cream cheese. Crazy, isn’t she?

Then the other day, as we were driving, we had this conversation:
Meagan: Look, it’s a bird.
Me: Oh, you see a bird?
Meagan: Yes, it’s a geese.
Me: You see some geese?
Meagan: No, it’s not a geese.
Me: What is it?
Meagan: It’s a geese.
Me: *Sigh of exasperation*

On the other hand, she’s becoming more imaginative in her play, and is really getting into dressups. We don’t have many around the house, so she tends to make do with whatever she finds. A few weeks ago, I gave her an old ratty maternity t-shirt to wear over her clothes while she painted. She liked it so much, that she tends to wear her new `dress’ around the house all the time. Today she also came up to me with a green washcloth on her head saying, “I’m a pincess!” It was pretty cute. Weird, but cute.