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Bumpie FFC/Vents
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Some Friday fun! Any good ones?
FFC: After a pedi appointment I absentmindedly put my kids in the wrong car seats so my 1 year old was facing forward and my 2 year old was rear-facing. I noticed this before I drove off but I thought it was odd that my DD was staring back at me in the little car seat mirror for the rear facing seat. Can't believe I did that!
Vent: Can't wait for the day where I'm not slicing and dicing food into small pieces, washing sippy cups and hearing "I don't want to eat that" or picking bits of food off the floor.
DD takes her pants and diapers off all.the.time. Runs around bottom-less and all of a sudden doesn't want to wear the current outfit she has on anymore. Welcome to the 3's, right?
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Re: Bumpie FFC/Vents
Oh I have many. To start, DS1 is like jeckyll and hyde sometimes. This is normal for a 3 year old, yes?? He drives me nuts. When he is being good, he is so loving, says "you are beautiful mommy" to me, holds my hand.....then when he is bad its like a switch flips and he yells "I don't love you!" and "shut up!" and sometimes will even try to smack or kick me....omg.
My confession is that I still feel like I favor the baby for this exact reason. He is so innocent and hasn't started with the willfulness yet. I know that I love them both equally, but I feel like I am always yelling at DS1 lately.
I always think this. I feel like I have spent the last 3 years of my life cutting food into tiny pieces.
Oh ladies - DD had a total breakdown @ CFA the other day - we actually left the playarea and went straight to the car b/c she started shoving her friend (who shoves alot) and Mama was not taking it. In the car on the way home, she suddenly learned the word "hate" and used it for everything in the world - me, all her friends, her teachers, etc.
As you've all witnessed, I've gone back and forth on wanting another baby for the last few years, I thought I might have an oops, but AF came today and I am definitely more relieved than disappointed. I think I finally decided where I'm really at on that. I'm sad but on a practical level of how we would pay for things and what our life would like w/ a 2nd baby at this point, I think we are much better off as one and done. I just hope my DD will get married young and have lots of babies!!
I like to call this Assshole Toddler Switch! I'm right there with you C. A is does this constantly. So nice one moment, then next completely off her rocker. Like last night at two A.M. she is crying for daddy, I walk into her room and she wants milk. I bring her water in a sippy cup and then see pitches a fit. REALLY KID!! And to make matters worst she woke up the baby. Head to wall.
C sleeps so much better and I just hope it keeps up. OMG I can't take two kids who don't sleep.
When I get home with DS and DH isn't there, I leave DS in the car while I bring bags or whatever else inside. It's only a minute or so and I figure he's safer in the car seat than in the house by himself while I run out to the car.
I finally got a video monitor yesterday and set it up. I really only want the video for when DS is awake in his room, which is just for a few mins before he falls asleep and a few mins when he wakes up in the morning. I like it though and I am anxious to try it this weekend for nap attempts (notice I didn't just say "naps").
Sometimes I find myself jealous of people with twins which is just insane because I don't really want to have twins.
BFP#1: 01/10, M/C 6w
BFP#2: 06/10, M/C 5w
BFP#3: 09/10, DS born June 1, 2011
BFP#4: 07/12, M/C 5w3d
BFP#5: 12/12, EDD 08/18/13
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And this is why I think really, we need to be one and done. I can't imagine my patience getting longer when DD is older. And X2? ugh
:::stuffs fingers in ears:::::
laaaa laaaa laaaaa, I can't heaaaaaaaar you!
LOL.
And I just bought DH one of those "hey diddle diddle" Ray Rice shirts on a whim today. Im sure that 20 could have been spent more responsibly considering im currently not getting paid full time money. It's not a Xmas gift for him either, it's just cause I love him.
Vent: I love the magic of Christmas time but I always end up way stressed out about keeping my ILs happy, even though they're rarely happy with anything and its no ones fault but their own.
ETA I can't hear you either, IDHT ;
A friend of mine with a 3 yo (not on TB) and I were recently talking about this. I don't know who termed the saying "terrible 2's" but neither of us agree, its the terrible 3's. DS is a total jeckyll/hyde. The other day I had to run upstairs to change Clair and DS got mad at me because he didn't want me to (which of course takes a whole 2 minutes) so he started thowing the department 56 figurines that go with the houses, which are ceramic. So the reindeer for santas workshop no longer has antlers, the father and son coming out of the flower shop with flowers for mom-dad no longer has a head, the kids decorating the christmas tree outside of their house no longer have heads, thankfully the other 3 he threw at the wall didn't break. I was livid, he absolutely knows he sholdn't have done this. So I put him in time out and he just turns around and starts saying "it was an accident mommy. I love you mommy." He has totally started to start pulling out the "I love you so much mommy" when he knows he's done something he shouldn't. AND, he smacks when he gets mad at us, which then leads to a time out and the "i love you's." He is totally *** with us
Oh - I have a funny/total mom one.
Soo. .. . I have been DD's least favorite person lately, lots of yelling/impatient with me. But, also do alot of the less popular parenting stuff - getting ready for bed, ready for school and DH does more fun stuff. And, I think my patience with her is waning too b/c we never get to do fun stuff. So, DH and I decided he would do more of the bed time stuff and see if by switching things up on her, I can get a chance to recharge and she won't be able to grind on me constantly. So, we switched up last night b/c I'd spent almost all day one on one w/ DD and we were starting to annoy each other. So, DH puts her to bed and it takes awhile, but is basically uneventful. I, of course, spent the whole 45 minutes pretending to ignore and feeling guilty and then feeling superior/martyr-ish b/c I got so much more housework done while they were upstairs than DH ever does.
I'm so crazy - even when I get the break I ask for, I feel bad for wanting it, but then can't even take the break b/c I feel guilty about what isn't getting done.
I totally do that too - I sit and fume that I'm putting the girls to bed while DH is sitting on the couch watching whatever he wants to but when he puts one of them to bed, I can't sit on the couch, I have to be doing something.
This is kind of me too. DH will sometimes take DS to his parents for the day and give me a day off which is awesome. But if I'm not productive during that "free" time, I feel like crap at the end of the day. Or if I'm relaxing during the day, I feel guilty because I need to take advantage of the free time and do something.
BFP#1: 01/10, M/C 6w
BFP#2: 06/10, M/C 5w
BFP#3: 09/10, DS born June 1, 2011
BFP#4: 07/12, M/C 5w3d
BFP#5: 12/12, EDD 08/18/13
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