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Yes, nanny she says all day long.  It would be great if she truly did what she was saying ‘yes’ to.  She is an adorable, brown hair, brown eyes, smart as a whip twenty-month year old.  Her favorite words are Please with much attitude and Yes nanny.  Today she was mad at the baby (2 months old) who was crying because it was time for his feeding.  She was jealous of all the time the baby took and when I told her I needed to feed the baby she walked up to the pumpkin seat and kicked the side yelling “you hush now!!! Of course, the baby only cried harder and louder.  When I glanced at the scene, she sweetly looks at smiles, “what nanny” and me  I tell her to go and sit in time out because she cannot kick the baby’s seat I hear a “yes nanny” followed by “stupid”  as she turns to look at the baby.  My sweetheart, my precious princess.

Boy did I create a little monster!  We get in the car and she lovingly says “I love you nanny” and I wonder what she has done to the baby.  I had to put the baby in the next to her so I could fit all three car seats in.  As I turn to drive out of the driveway, I hear her talking to the baby as she takes the pacifier throws it on the floor.  I ask her where the baby’s passy is and she says “I dno no nanny”.  As I am driving, I try to reach back and feel for the pacifier to no avail.  The baby is quiet and does not seem to need it right now, so I continue on our trip to pick up Evan from school.  Thank God, for small blessings- the baby did not his pacifier because he found his thumb.  As I get out helping Evan in the car, I find the pacifier on the floor.  I say, “Did you throw this on the floor” she smiles with a little laugh as she kicks her feet in the air “no Scott did” Scott is the baby.  As pull into the driveway she is yelling, “hold you! Hold you!”  She refuses to walk, screaming as I try to put her down I hear “hold you” over and over each time a little louder.  I tell her that I will pick her up after I get the baby out of the car.  I carry her in one arm while I have the car seat with baby in the other.  Thank God Evan is old enough to walk!!  I have to laugh because it is so crazy.

Yes, nanny can be the best words a person hears if they are actually heartfelt and delivered with obedience.  Without that, they are just a reason to smile at a little face and say ‘ok’.  It is so wonderful to get past the stage where she is calling every one mommy, now I have an identity- nanny.  However by the end of a long day nanny could be changed very easily!!  Funny I  was not sure she would call me nanny because she was confused with a banana – nana.  When we would say not mommy but nanna she would look at me strangely.   Finally, she choose nanny- I now had my own identity in your mind.

He brother was not as easy to sway from using my name as a way of identifying me as she was.  He was insistent on calling me by name.  This was a habit I hated I felt out of respect he should not call any adult or me by their name unless it was stated as appropriate.  In my case, it was not appropriate.  He insisted until one day when I told him I would not answer him unless he called me nanna or nanny.  He tested me as most 4-year-old do.  He lost and it only took two weeks.  After many many days of not getting attention, having to wait for me to talk to him, and being told ‘I will only answer to nanny or nanna’ he chose to call me nanna.  One battle down and many more to go.  Nevertheless, a name is just a name it is what the name means to the person who is using it that is important.  “yes, nanny” means- I love and will try to do what you ask.