Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Terrible Two's? You betcha!

So it's been a week off of work and we have been busy! Tuesday, I had drinks with my pal Cupcake, Wednesday we signed the contract for our house, Thursday we went to the outdoor concert (previous post), Friday we left for the mountians, Saturday we went to a fun festival in the mountains, Sunday was Father's Day and the start of VBS, Monday was the Marionette Theatre and VBS, and today has been school for Savannah and piddly stuff for me. Whew!

Speaking of that *precious* 2 year old...What in the world do some of you mommies do?!? Really, I love her to death and she is so cute and funny sometimes but I really would love to wrap her up in duct tape sometimes and suspend her from the ceiling!
She refuses to do anything I say. I could tell her to watch Dora non-stop and eat a bowl of candy and she would stand their and smirk at me or she would say, "inaminute." Putting on clothes or shoes requires the patience of a saint and last time I checked, I wasn't one. She's been known to hit me for any reason or no reason at all. Yesterday she hurled the remore at my temple and it hurt so much I cried! Lately she's been whiny and prone to crying for no real reason. For example, she wanted to go outside. We went outside. She wandered around for about 2 minutes and then whined she wanted to go inside. Oh- and I haven't even mentioned that she doesn't like to nap anymore. I try to put her down, but she'll usually come out of her room about 6 times in 20 minutes. Then I either A)give up and let her out B) really insist she stay in her room and she spends the next 30 minutes destroying it C) drive her around in which she's asleep 2 miles down the road or D)insist that she stays in her room but she still comes out every 5 minutes which does nothing but exhaust me and waste the next half hour. And I do dicipline her. It varies between counting to 3, spanking her legs and occasionally time-out. Anybody have some advice? Support? Margaritas?

On the positive side: she can be very polite saying "please" and "thank you", she's gotten better about using the potty and isn't a total Daddy's girl... all the time.

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