I use them almost every day on my head. And Lily notices. Sometimes she even gets one for me. Last night I was lying on the couch with one and she was playing with John, when he put a pillow they were playing with on his forehead.
"No, that's not like a ice pack!" Lily said to him, indignantly.
We both burst out laughing, to which she said, "No! Don't laugh! It's not funny, it's sad!"
Which only made us laugh harder. She finally started laughing with us, because she likes to laugh, but boy, was she ever adamant in her views. Funny and sad are the most popular emotions with her right now. Of course, she is mad a lot as well, but she mostly notices mad only when we are mad at her.
We think she might be going through a growth spurt latley, as she has been Miss CrankyPants at a moment's notice, and cries a lot when she doesn't get her way. It seems to come out of nowhere most of the time, like you put her blanket on wrong, and in the past when she's been like this, it's been a growth spurt. Of course, you don't really know if it's a brain spurt or a body spurt, but they both seem to have the same effect.
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you know what? I'm not child psychologist or even a mom, but it seems to me, in my infinite wisdom, that kids start getting really upset when they don't get their way or when people don't see things their way, because they are starting to grow individual wishes and thoughts and hopes, and they can't figure otu why everyone doesn't have the same thoughts and they insist on life being they way it should be.
Not that I'm never like that.
Chris, thanks for your comment. You are right on the money, Lily is getting more independent in her thoughts and opinions. Lately we have to explain to her that we don't know what she wants, that we can't read her mind, and she needs to use more words to explain to us (because we are obviously so dumb!)
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