Out of Character
Audrey threw a huge tantrum last night before going to bed. She didn't want to brush her teeth (nothing new), and then wanted to play with her cell phone instead of sitting down to read books. Instead of listening to me as I asked her repeatedly to pick out a book, she walked over to the diaper pail - the place she knows grosses me out - and began hitting it with her cell phone. I would not have put it past her to try to lick the diaper pail just to get a rise out of me. After I counted to 5, a smile on her face the whole time, I took the cell phone and brought her away from the pail so we could read books. She rebelled. In the throws of her anger, she lunged and bit my thigh. Then she landed in timeout. The tantrum that followed must have gone on for a solid 30 minutes. This is out of character. When the tantrum first started, Sean didn't want her in the bedroom, citing that he would not be able to fall asleep with her screaming and crying like that. We removed Au