Today I am losing my mind.
I went in the bathroom and shut the door and screamed "FUUUUUUDDDDGGGEEEE!" as loud as I could, except it really wasn't fudge I said, it was the real "f" word.
I've had it with my daughter.
She can't play nice at all. We went to a friend's house this morning so the kids could play. Yeah, that went over well. First Sophie wanted me to hold her, which is ok except I have a baby to hold and take care of also.
Then when she's playing I hear her crying and saying "that's mine" "That's not yours, that's Sophie's" "Mine, mine!" etc. When actually none of the toys were hers.
Then she starts pushing the other girl. PUSHING! I did not raise her to push other kids. But did she listen to me when I tried telling her that we don't push our friends? And when I tried to reason with her why we don't do that?
Oh, that would be the day, when Sophie actually listens.
Everytime I asked Sophie a question or offered her something, I was given the the nice reply of "No" or "Uh uh."
OY VAY!!
I am so glad we are leaving on vacation this weekend. I'm dropping the kids off at their grandparents and leaving. I'm heading straight to the bar and I'm not coming back!
I think the other reason I've lost it is the lack of sleep night after night.
Did I mention that Holden sucks at sleeping and taking naps? He does.
He takes piddly 30 minute naps throughout the day, usually woken up by his sister's crying. Then at night he's so tired he cries. And it's not the sweet little cries you hear from many babies, it is the SCREAMING LOUD CRY that could only come from my children. (This is a little payback for being so loud myself I suppose).
So yes he CRIES and CRIES at night until he finally falls asleep at 11pm or so. This is an unacceptable bedtime for my baby.
And when he finally gets to sleep, it doesn't last very long. He squirms a lot at night, wakes up, and is forever losing the pacifier, so I am up about every half hour sticking it back in. I know a solution would be to not let him have the paci at night, but after the hours of screaming he likes to suck on it to get to sleep. And we are so tired of the crying by then, neither of us dare take it away for fear of him starting back up again.
We have his 4 month Dr appt tomorrow so maybe, hopefully she'll have some wonderful advice for us.
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Having no children of my own as of yet, I haven't gotten to experience the joys of the terrible twos (or as I have found is really the terrible 1 1/2 - 3ish), although Ryan is starting to say 'No,no, no, nooooo' over things... :) Take care, your child is not doing this because you have raised her wrong or because she is somehow unique in throwing tantrums...(if that were the case then they wouldn't have named the stage). Here's some reading from experts that might comfort you even thought it won't really solve the problem...
http://www.drgreene.com/21_556.html
http://www.robynsnest.com/tertwos.htm
http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/features/kids/twos.html
I like beer.
I'll meet you at the bar.
I'm telling you. Seriously there are days that if a traveling band of gypsies offered me enough, I'd sell The Duckling.
There's still hope for Peanut.
Timothy's not too bad about fighting yet unless it's with his brother *ducking* However I didn't take Glenn to playgroups at this age for about a 6mo streach because of biting. (see pushings not "that" bad ;-))
If you don't want advice, don't read this part. If you do, stop trying to reason at this age it doesn't work, I tried it too, but had more sucess with immediate time outs. In fact reasoning didn't work for us till 3, and even then it was more of a I don't want to loose my blankie rather then I don't want to hurt them thing
Good Luck, I'll meet you for that beer too!
Been there with my children! Have those days that children are just on my nerves from morning till they sleep! UGH!
I hope you have a great week off!
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