17 months - Whine and cheese?

While I would gladly take wine and cheese, my daughter has only been providing me with whine lately. Why?? She doesn't get instant gratification. It's the only reasonable explanation I can come up with. Communication isn't the issue. Yesterday she said, "eat" [whine] "please" [whine]. So I said fine, let's look at what we have. She pushes me out of the way to see what we have in the fridge. "Apples" (aka pineapples). I told her no (because she's on the BRAT diet due to some nasty reactions to antibiotics). So she said, "pastas". I go to heat up a small bowl of leftover pasta and she tantrums on the floor (aka throws herself on the ground and says "DOWN" … in case I didn't already know she was down there). 20 seconds later…literally, because that is all I heated up the pasta for…she's happy again. When she's finished, whiiinnnnneeeeeeee "more" whiinneeeee. It's enough to pull your hair out. I'm thrilled she has the words to express what she wants, but then why does the whining continue?

It comes and goes, the whining. Like today? She's been great. Very little complaining. Maybe she's bored. On the days we have stuff to do, she seems to be okay. On weekends or days that she doesn't have an activity, she is probably a bit whinier. I haven't really paid attention to correlations. I do know that it doesn't all just make sense, even if I were to pay attention to correlations. We could offer her a vegetable in her high chair and it's like we are asking her to eat fire. "Noooooooooooooooooooo. nonononono." But if we go to the couch in the living room to have a snack, even if the snack is broccoli and cheese… "More? Please! More! Please!" So now it matters where she sits? UGH. I just hope she puts this newfound communicative skill on hold while we go on vacation tomorrow.

I guess it's actually good she can speak well, because I think we'd be in trouble. If she whines as much as she does and can communicate, I don't even want to think what it would be like if she couldn't communicate verbally.
It does helps her redeem herself. How? When she does speak, it's amazingly cute. I know I'm biased, but how many kids under 2 will ask for something and say please, thank you and "welcome". Welcome is new. She doesn't totally understand it, but it's funny. She says "bless you" when you sneeze. And she told another little person to be "niiiiice" when they went to go touch her in a class the other day. Her precocious attitude is a very redeeming quality, but yet another reason she needs to be in school next year, at least part time.

I'm not kidding when I say that it's always an adventure…The thing is, while I complain, I do know that she's not really that bad (you should know that my version of whining is any pitch that rises about normal speaking voices) and at the end of the day, her whining will just lead to my wining, and that's not a bad thing!