Phases

If you have a child you will know what I am talking about when I say "Sofie is going through a phase." We have been through many a phase when you consider that Evan is 13. Although I don't remember the boys phases at Sofie's age. I recall they went through toy phases - match box cars, baseball, bouncy balls. Then there were also Movie phases - Toy Story, Batman, Barney, Cars. I will always remember the toys phases that matched their movies, especially Batman & Toy Story, I don't think there was a Batman or Toy Story (1 or 2) toys we DID NOT have! Lets just say I racked up on EBay not too long ago. Sofie has not had many phases of that sort, well I say that & I begin to think there have been a few.....a "Bapes" phase this one continues but she says it right now, Tape, good ole clear wrapping paper tape. Loves it will put it on EVERYTHING, her clothes, the floor, her fingers & toes, the chairs, her baby dolls, ANYTHING! She tells me "I NEED TAPE!" Not I want, I need! She now has a sticker phase which resembles the bape phase. She cant get enough stickers, mind you they only last a few minutes, but they are cheap so I wont complain. I hope she never gets out of the baby doll phase. She loves her some babies. Plays with them all day long, the more the merrier. She has now just began watching Disney channel & a few movies so maybe that phase is on its way, not sure.
Sofie has went thru the phase where she cried if we left her in the nursery @ church or when she went to daycare a few times. She completed the phase where she wanted to go home with everyone. Never had the biting phase - Thanking God for that! We had a potty training phase that lasted a month then a total regress & NO potty ever phase. (Which gladly only lasted a few weeks, she has been potty trained for a year.) We go back & forth in the phase of "I want you to hold me all day" to "Don't ever hold me" . Yet now I am talking about the phase I realized she must be in right now, Yesterday, today but hopefully not tomorrow - the "very, extremely, overly whiny" phase. Maybe this has to do with she is just getting over having the flu. But right now I cant stand to hear her whine! I am on Whine overload! This is not a good whine, not a tolerable whine. it is one where if she is whining you just hope she will forget about whining or fall asleep SOON! Then this whine turns into a crying fit which can lead to a feet-stomping, leg-kicking tantrum. (thanks to the flu there can be lots of boogers involved) Lord help us all. I put on Facebook awhile ago that I just want my sweet Sofie back. I know this is just one phase of sooooo many I will have to endure. Needless to say though I love that little girl regardless. Whining, bapes & all.