A Phase?

Brooke seems to be going through this destructive stage? Maybe its her two year old way of handling the stress of moving and change...that is the counselor in me trying to analyze her behavior.

A few days ago she ripped fabric flowers off one of her bathing suits. "I don't yike dem fowers, Mommy!" It left huge holes in the suit so I had to throw it away. She also completely destroyed a foam book ripping the cover into 100 little pieces of blue and pink foam. "I don't yike dat piggy book!" Yesterday during her "nap" time (50/50 she sleeps) she somehow ripped a hole in the body of one of her baby dolls and then pulled out all the stuffing scattering it around her room. Her response this time was "oh no, oh no, my baby hurt."


And last but not least, yesterday she decided to take off the pull up she had on during her rest time (in which she had peed) and rip it until it was completely disintegrated with tiny beads of wet diaper insulation spread throughout the room. She also removed the ac/heat register vent off the floor and...I think...was trying to put some of the evidence of the shredded diaper into the duct. I believe I caught her just as this was beginning so hopefully there aren't too many particles of ripped pull-up sitting in our air ducts for us to breath. Thankfully we're getting new carpet in that room next week...and hopefully a new and tighter register. I foolishly asked her why she did this and her response was "I don't yike dat pull-up (the one with the princesses), I yike Dowa (Dora) Mommy, I want a Dowa pull-up!"

I don't remember either of the other girls doing things like this!?