She's just hard to deal with sometimes and very hard to predict. She loves a food one day and hates it the next so it is impossible to buy food for her knowing she won't complain about it, so we basically ignore her and buy what *we* like since she's going to complain about it regardless. Been happening for years and years, nothing new.

Tonight I gave her a tiny amount of dinner. She wanted it with her multigrain toast, she got it with pasta like the rest of us and was told if she wanted more she could have it with toast. Remember how I said she loves multigrain bread?

Well she doesn't want it anymore (she's been after us to buy her multigrain bread for over a year, we were putting off buying it for her for reasons that will become apparent later in this post), she wants white bread, she couldn't explain why something she's been wanting for so long she doesn't want anymore. This happens a lot - she pesters for ages for something and as soon as she gets it she might eat it once if we're lucky and then it sits in the cupboard untouched until it expires and we throw it out. Every now and again we relent and get her something she is particularly keen on and the same thing happens. She couldn't explain why she didn't want multigrain bread anymore beyond "I really really like it but I've had it now and I don't want it again" and we were pushing for an explanation of why she always does this so she hit me quite hard.

I hauled her off to bed (its 7pm). She is now slipping notes under the door saying I don't understand her. No, I don't understand her.

She hasn't hit me for ages now - she's sworn at me a few times, slammed doors, smashed things, but its been a while since she last hit me. But I do hear her little sister from the next room crying out "don't hit me" and she's been pinged at school for hitting so I know its not just me.

Ah, dinner time fun.