Before I start, I have to say that a) she is on a wind up and knows she is being irritating and b) I'm posting here in order to distract myself so I can deal with her appropriately and not be horrible and shouty.
It occurs to me that most of what she does seems very innocuous and if I tried to describe what she's doing you would think I was horribly and the worst mum ever.
Let's give it a go.
She is flollopping. Throwing herself across furniture. Aasking the same questions over and over again no matter what the answer. She is huffing air out of her nose, and tapping her fingers on the floor/table.
She is currently 'playing' with her two year brother, using my throw from the sofa. Every so often she is looking at me, because she is waiting for me to react, because she knows the throw lives on the sofa and not the floor (or wrapped round the baby).
Now, she is lying on the floor with her legs up in the air. Again, shooting me looks daring me to tell her off.
Every now and then she warbles a line from a song. Oh, she's just shouted across the room to ds1 that he's chubby (wtf?).
Earlier, we were in the cinema and she kept sniffing. She tapped her headband on her 3d glasses until I took the headband away.
She's just walked into the kitchen and punched ds1. Obviously my tactic of ignoring her winding up is not working.
That fight is over and she's now sitting under the table screaming at ds1 that it's all his fault.
Dh is dealing with all this nonsense calmly by the way. I'm on the sofa ignoring so I don't lose my rag.
Anyone else have a 9yo like this or are we just special?
Sigh.