Coworker while in Korea: I used to think my son was so well-behaved until I took him to daycare. He's a bad, bad boy!
I used to think that Anduin was the cutest, sweetest, best behaved baby... And then she started actually growing up. Turns out that she's the cutest, sweetest, most stubborn baby. Cases in point:
When I first went back to work, she decided she would show her displeasure the only way she could: By refusing to eat while I was at work. Others may think it was because she had never taken a bottle before, but she had. And she wasn't at day care. She was being cared for by her grandmothers and Dad, who have obviously taken care of her before. She refused to eat though while I was at work so that when I came home, she was basically attached to me until she went to bed. I figured that after a couple of days of this, she would give in due to hunger pangs.
I was wrong.
She kept it up for two full weeks. At end of the first week, I called the pediatrician. He referred us to a childhood behavioral specialist who saw us nearly everyday for a week. I was a little embarrassed that my six week old required a behavioral specialist already.
And then at some point, she figured out this was how things were going to be. She started taking bottles and never looked back.
Flash forward nine months later. She and Owen are having their real first taste of daycare at the local Child Development Center on base. Niles and I are trying it out to give him a break. It is the afternoon during their first full day at the CDC when I receive the call... "LT Armstrong, your daughter has refused to eat all day." Her voice was full of concern.
Me, however, I knew Anduin's tricks by now and just shrugged it off. We did, though, eat Dunkin's donuts and Baskin Robbins ice cream as soon as I picked them up. Probably not the best way to reward stubborn behavior... but you know, the kid had to eat. :)
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