Addyson regularly doesn't want to change into her pajamas. Since there isn't a whole lot of difference between her pajamas and her regular clothes I started dressing her in regular clothes after her bath then when she got up in the morning she essentially was wearing a new clean outfit. This morning Addy woke up in her blue (t shirt material) dress that had a spot or two from a fudgsicle that she and Auntie Karen had shared the night before. No biggie. We went on with our morning which included blue juice, cheesy crackers, watering the garden, bugs, blue nail polish, more bugs and painting flower pots in the art studio. Just before lunch Addy's dress was wearing a bit of blue juice, cheesy crackers, water, dirt, blue nail polish and blue paint. Addy had painted her toes and finger nails all by herself of course.
Addy wanted to swing with Auntie Karen in the hammock but we told her she had to change out of her dirty shirt first (we are so demanding!). You can only imagine what ensued. Crying. Crying. More crying and an "I don't want to change my shirt." More crying and an "I don't want to change my shirt." More crying and an "I don't want to change my shirt." Auntie Karen trying to reason with her. Mommy trying to reason with her. Karen going to her room. Mommy going to her room. Addy yelling from the living room "I don't want to change my shirt. I want to swing in the hammock now." Eventually Addy said "Mommy (sniffle sniffle) I want you" in which I got up went to the living room scooped her up and took her in her room. I set her down and said "Oh my goodness your shirt is so dirty I think that there are little bugs living in there." Smile. Yup, I got a smile out of her. I then pretended that my hand was a bug and said "Addy I am a rolly polly bug and your shirt is so dirty I love it."
Addy: Giggle.
Rolly Polly bug: "Oh Addy your shirt is too dirty it is making me sneeze. A choo."
Addy sneezed. I kid you not! It was priceless.
Rolly Polly bug: "You see what I mean Addy even YOU are sneezing!"
Addy: Giggle.
Rolly Polly bug: "I must find a new place to live. Maybe I will go back to the garden."
Mommy: "Wow your shirt must be dirty if he is going back to the garden!"
Rolly Polly bug: "Oh wait I want to live in this nice clean shirt." (the hand bug scurries to the clean green shirt I had been trying to get her to wear.)
Addy: "No you can't live there this is my shirt."
Mommy: "Addy you aren't going to wear it so let the rolly polly bug have it."
Addy: "No Mommy I am going to wear it."
Mommy imagines herself doing the happy dance and yelling "there you have it folks she is going to wear it!"
Rolly Polly bug: "No I want to wear it."
Addy: "No, you can't have it."
Addy and Rolly Polly bug wrestle and tickle and wrestle and tickle. Eventually Rolly Polly bug is scared of Addy's blue toes and blue fingers which Addy informs us are aliens (brothers and sisters to be exact).
I wish I could remember her comments better but I don't. I do however know that she took off her dirty shirt dress and put on a clean tank top.
