acting out

so one of the things that has happened is that madelyn has started acting out - or maybe i should say acting in... she has been super sneaky about it. i think that it is a reaction to either moving or maddux' arrival but it is very much on the down low. she doesn't cry or throw fits (other than the normal stuff but even that has decreased). instead she does thing that she thinks we won't notice.

when we bought a bag of tootsie roll candy at sams for trick-or-treaters i found a corner of it opened. i asked madelyn if she opened it and she told me that mason did it (even though he was asleep when we got home from sams and was still napping). a few days later matt found the scene in the picture in a cabinet under the kitchen sink. it looks like she didn't actually eat any; she just chewed them a few times and spit them out.

she has also started to bite on her finger nails. i can't remember what else she was doing because it seems like she has started to ease up on the sneaky behavior and lying. it seems like this was all fairly short lived. and i really just can't remember now that i can post about it... love.

UPDATED: i thought of another example of her "acting out"... she stopped wiping and/or flushing the toilet regularly. this was never a proplem in the past, totally new.