Snippets

M has been in some sort of patching utopia lately.  For, what seems like months, M has accepted putting on her patch every morning with very little fuss, rarely attempts to take her patch off herself, and is eager and ready for me to take her patch off while sitting on my lap at the end of the day.  Of course, it's probably been a few weeks of great patching days, considering we've only been at this patching thing for a few months...

Things have been going so well lately.  Full day patching at it's best!

M has changed...  She's still really good at this whole patching thing, but...  Things have changed.

Here's a little screenplay version of some of our daily moments:

Scene 1
Mommy: M don't touch the fireplace.

M: screams and tries to touch fireplace again.

Mommy: M don't touch the fireplace.  Removing M from the area of the fireplace.

M: Puts her hand up to her patch angrily as if to threaten ripping it off her face.

Mommy: No M!

M: Realizes that could be a bad idea, and decides to not rip her patch off OR she throws herself to the floor in a full tantrum always banging her head.

This situation is being repeated throughout our day, with a variety of no-no's inserted where the example of the fireplace is used.

I blame the fact that she's getting 4 upper teeth right now.  We've been working on the different stages of those first 4 uppers for probably the past 2 weeks.  Considering to date she only has 3 teeth in total out, I'm thinking if teeth is the current issue in patching right now, it could last much longer than I'm hoping it will!