Go Away, Mommy!

That's what Madison said to me last night while I was giving her a bath.  I quickly told her she is not to speak to Mommy like that and then she told me to 'go away' again! I tried to play it cool and simply tell her she doesn't talk to me like that and she needs to be nice to Mommy, but I was breaking inside. I couldn't believe she had told me to go away! She's been having a hard time with me working lately, and I'm not sure if that's where this comment stemmed from or if it was because I had told her to stop splashing in the bathtub.  A couple of weeks ago as I was leaving for work Madison got really upset.  She grabbed a purse and said "I go work!" I told her she couldn't go with me, and as she and Scott walked me outside, she said "My car. I go work." Then as I was pulling out she was crying and screaming "Mommy! Mommy!" It made my eyes tear up.  After my two nights of work that week she was very stand-offish with me and more clingy to Daddy.  Since then she has seemed to be 'mad' at me every time after I work, for about a day or so.  In fact Thursday morning when she woke up I went in her room to get her and she said "No! Daddy!" When I told her he was sleeping it was just mommy, she screamed.  I had to picked her up from her crib and then she pushed me away and ran off screaming for Daddy! It's been quite frustrating and heartbreaking for me, so when she came and snuggled up with me on the couch Thursday night (after the go away incident) it melted my heart! Hopefully this phase will end soon because I don't know how much more of it my heart can take!