October 19, 2009

Coloring 101

I have been trying to spend more one on one time with Rebekah, thinking it might help her feel a little more important. I misjudged the time allotment, and the outcome has been catastrophic. She now "KNOWS" she is the queen of Sheba and no longer feels like we are her royal subjects, but KNOWS we are there to serve her and if we do not act quickly she will execute her punishment immediately.
On Thursday I could tell she was feeling a little left out so I made the mistake of asking her if she wanted to watch a movie and snuggle on my bed just her and I. She now feels like she gets a movie EVERYDAY and informed me this morning "Mommy, we DID NOT watch my movie yesterday" followed with "Mommy, you NEED to watch a movie with me TODAY!"
On Saturday she wanted to color with me. I told her I would but I needed to make dinner too, so there would be times I needed to get up to do things in the kitchen. She informed me that it would be ok as long as I came right back and continued to color with her. I thought to myself, this is a good thing I can bring out super power #2 and get this done. Boy was I wrong. You see I did not realise that I was coloring with an art critic as well as a queen. This is just some of what I heard over the next few minutes...
"Mommy you not doing that right"
"No Mommy use this color"
~Sigh~ "Mommy, you need to color nicer"
"Um, you are not done Mommy"
"Mommy do it nice, like this"
and when I went to get up to check on dinner I received a "mommy look" and...
"Mommy, you are not done"
"Mommy, you cant leave it like this"
"Mommy, you said you were gonna color with me"
"Mommy, I thought you were going to color"
"Mommy, you need to color with me"
"Mommy, we are NOT done yet"
I did come back and color after a quick reprimand. (for her from me NOT the other way around) But alas my coloring did not measure up to her criteria and her picture is on the fridge not mine. Sad day when my art cant make it onto the fridge...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would put your picture on my fridge, Bethany!

Love you!
Mom

Sandstroms said...

If I didn't know any better, I would say that your Highness is a blood relation to one of the rulers in my domain.