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| He was pulling the yellow heads off all the flowers, and I made him pose. This is his "fake" smile so I will hurry up. |
We are hoping this is why he seems to have hit a patch of the "terrible 2's." At school on Tuesday, his teachers pulled me aside to tell me that he'd been pushing the other kids, and he even kicked one of them (completely unprovoked) while standing in line to go outside. I was mortified and made him apologize to his teachers (he was ashamed, thank goodness.)
Things at home haven't been much easier - he tests my patience on purpose on a daily basis. His favorites include "kissing" the baby while she's asleep to wake her up and then running away, throwing his food/spoon/fork at us at the dinner table, closing the dishwasher while I am trying to load dirty dishes, and pushing on the screen door to go outside in the backyard (a big no-no since we've lived in this house, and yet I have to repeat myself approximately 184,291 times a day.) Naptime is rough - some days he's a good napper and happy to rest, and other days he fights me and fights it. If I try to discipline him, he usually giggles at me while I do it. The only scary person around here to him is Daddy, and unfortunately Daddy isn't always home.
I try to remember that his little world has been turned upside down lately, and he needs attention and love and cuddles. It's just so hard sometimes to reconcile his dual personalities. On one hand, sometimes he is my sweet, loving little boy, who loves to cuddle up and watch cartoons with me and give me big slobbery kisses. On the other, he's this little tasmanian devil of craziness. We are working with it and hopefully things will calm down soon!
Caroline is amazing. I hesitate to even post this, because a) I don't want to jinx myself, and b) I don't want my other Mommy friends to hate me, but she is sleeping through the night at 4.5 weeks old. And when I say through the night - I mean from 10:30 or 11pm straight through until 5:30 or 6am without waking up. And when she does wake up in the morning to eat, 9 times out of 10 she goes right back to sleep! I have no idea how I got so lucky. It certainly is her personality and isn't anything I did (and I'd like to remind everyone that I paid my dues with Jack - who was up for a 3am feeding every night until he was 9 MONTHS OLD.) Anyway, Caroline is an amazing sleeper who is overall a very calm baby. She's usually happy hanging out watching what Jack's doing, or outside with me while Jack runs around. The only thing she really doesn't like is her carseat right now, but I am happy to put up with a few minutes of screaming in the car! It seems a very small price to pay. We are so very blessed and I thank my lucky stars every day!
The other thing that currently frustrates her is that she can pull her own binky out of her mouth, but she can't put it back in. When she rips her binky out, and breaks the suction in her mouth so hard that there's a loud "pop!" and it scares her, this is what she does:
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| Poor baby! |
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