Explaining your child? HA!

so very cute, but did you look in her eyes?

I am filling out Evangeline's paperwork for her preschool.  I never realized how difficult it is to explain this particular child of mine.

Trinity and Piper have always been explained in a straight forward manner.

 Trinity is a loving very caring girl, very bright, easily distracted and frustrated and will cry, needs a firm hand to keep her on track, but a gentle understanding person to listen to her.  She will accept responsibility for wrong doings and understand the need for punishment even if she's not happy about it.

Piper is a very social girl, she dislikes distractions, she becomes frustrated easily and is a very weepy child when she becomes overly tired.  She is happy, loving, very generous and goes with the flow (easy going).  Does not like to be laughed at, becomes defensive when she perceives she's under attack and may strike out.

Evangeline....hmmm the devil in a tutu?  Thank goodness her preschool teachers are friends with me on Facebook and have been exposed to her shenanigans, they also have watched her grow from a baby into the little girl she is now.  How do you explain that her sassy attitude boarders on disrespect sometimes, but its funny????  That she thinks its hysterical when she becomes defiant, and when she begins to laugh you are helpless to suppress your own grin or giggles.  I swear if you don't know her and have never been exposed to her laugh, you'll figure it out the first time she laughs at you or with you.  The meaning of the term infectious laughter was clearly defined after Evangeline was born.

It's easier to tell them about her literal nature.  If you tell her to put something in the potty, you will find it located in the toilet, so you have to say put it in the bathroom.  If you ask her where she's hurt, she will tell you WHERE (as in location ex: I fell off the slide) instead of where on her body she's injured.  She will follow directions to a T.  Which is nice, unless she wants to be a little mischievous. Then it will be out right defiance, all the while she's smiling and laughing at you.

A friend, recently asked how I can discipline her?  She's so cute and she's so funny.  Well thankfully when she's being naughty, I am just angry enough to not find her funny until much later.

How can we explain such a complex personality?  She is the product of being brought up with older siblings, more experienced parents (we practiced on the first two), and being the child we tried the hardest to have, becoming the blessing we had wanted for nearly 3 years, of course just when we decided that we were giving up on another, she came(isn't that always the way?).

It's driving me crazy, and I guess from now on I might just have to write down "When you experience her, then you will know."  Followed by a smiley face and "Welcome to the wonderful world of Evangeline, she should be classified as a force of nature."

Best Wishes and good luck to my favorite teachers at my favorite preschool!!!  Much love to you!

The devil inside.