Multiple personalities?
Category: Just Blogging
Posted: Jul 01, 2008 05:59 pm
(posted by: sherilync)
So, for those of you who don't know, my eldest daughter had some health issues a few months ago. Thankfully, she is fine now. But, since the trauma she went through R has been insisting that she is no longer R.
First, she was Dora. That went on for well over two months. I didn't use to mind Dora, but now I can't stand her. When you have a 3 year old saying, "I'm not R, I'm Dora" you just want to throw out every Dora toy you see. At first we played along, chalking it all up to the traum she went through. Neighbors thought it was cute and played along, too. R was Dora 24/7. Finally, after a few weeks Scott and I were able to convince R that we were going to call her by her given name. She was fine with that but insisted that all the neighbors call her Dora. The kids down the street even stopped greeting her by her given name. Instead, they'd say "Hi Dora".
Anyway, you get the picture. Finally Dora is gone for the most part. Some days she is "Mousey" and other days "Red Fish". This morning, however, she came downstairs as "Sheepfield"--a name she completely made up herself. Either little Miss R is an extremely creative child, or I will be paying for many hours of therapy in the future.
