Grr....Most days, I am the happy Mommy of a loving toddler and a sweet new baby. I love being able to stay-at-home with my children. I love that everyday I wake up and I am their teacher. I love witnessing all of our everyday miracles, especially with Christian's CI. Most days are filled with laughter and joy. Today is a different story. I'm tired. I'm stressed. I didn't have time to put my make-up on this morning, and worst of all...I had to cancel a much needed pedicure this morning. Grr.
I found as Christian gets deeper and deeper into his 2nd year, that I lose more and more patience. By 9am this morning, I already had dealt with two temper tantrums, one broken toy, and a popped balloon (we were at our favorite grocery store that gives out free balloons and cookies). I know I'm "supposed" to be celebrating every word that comes out of this kid's mouth, but does that include the word "NO"? I should be glad that he's using 6 word sentences, but I cringe when I hear "No, Mommy not going to clean-up". I know what he is doing is completely normal and it's par for the course.
And to think that I thought I would never hear him speak.
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Oh, Tina! You got to this post before I had a chance to write basically the same thing! Perhaps I'll just put a link to your post up on my page and call it a day... Thanks for the tea and sympathy when I stopped by this morning...:) Nice to know there are others in the same boat.
Oh, the age of two. Even worse, the age of TWO AND A HALF! I lost my patience more than once with my older one, no matter how hard I tried to keep my cool. Three gets better. WAY better! Three and a half is like magic-we suddenly have an end to most tantrums and a lot of compliance. And reason. Dear, dear reason!
Sending you electronic pinot at the end of a trying day with a toddler (g)!
"No" is one of Landon's favorite words too. Hope tomorrow is better - and you get to get your pedi :)
and to think I'm so excited Aiden is responding to me telling him "no" ... only to remember that the more I say it, the sooner he does too. hmmm. gotta love it.
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