‘No
thank you, mummy.’
Seriously.
How are you meant to respond to that?
Nancy
has been quickly picking up words and phrases.
And then using them to make it
plainly known how things are going to run now.
With her very much the boss of
us.
I
realised that Nancy was totally reliant on the bottle to go to sleep. The same
bottle she had when she was a little baby. It was fine when she was a few
months old. But she must have been turning herself inside out, trying to get
anything out of it now.
So, as
she seems to understand so much these days, I thought it was the right time to
upgrade to a ‘big girl's cup.’
Cue
absolute, purple-faced, fist-clenching, foot-stamping tantrums.
I’m a
mega massive push-over normally.
But this time I’ve put my foot down.
Partly aided by the child-minder tentatively
mentioning that she’s the only girl drinking from a baby’s cup.
Two
weeks ago, Nancy would nod off on my lap while having a drink. It was lovely
and warm. Like a human hot water bottle.
I’d transfer her to her bed.
And I’d
be glass of wine in hand, Corrie on, by 7.30.
Now, it’s
9.30pm, Nancy’s rattling the bars of her cot like Top Dog in Prisoner Cell
Block H, shouting, ‘get out! Get out!’
And I
have no ammunition.
Nothing
to barter with.
Nothing
up my sleeve.
Just, Twinkle twinkle little star, on repeat.
Which she now, incidentally, knows most of the words to. So it ends up being more of a duet than a lullaby.
Just, Twinkle twinkle little star, on repeat.
Which she now, incidentally, knows most of the words to. So it ends up being more of a duet than a lullaby.
It
feels like we’re back to stage one again.
Or
worse. Minus one.
Because when she was titchy and wouldn’t sleep, I could
decide for Nancy what the matter was.
But now
she hollers what the problem is.
Or, and this somehow makes it so much worse,
politely tells me, ‘no thank you.’
And there we are.
All sat in a child’s
bedroom with the lights out. Waiting to see who will crack first.
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