I'm Back!... For NOW

Hi again! It's been quite a while since I've sat in this chair and started to type! Wow!

Have I been too busy? Perhaps. It seems that as children get older there's less and less time for things like typing on the computer or talking on the phone, and there's more time for sitting on the floor and playing, and reading stories to demanding toddlers. Now that my son is 15 months old he demands most if not all of my time anymore, so such everyday tasks like laundry and cleaning are set to separate days and are applauded when they actually get accomplished!

He's at a great age. He understands sort of what I say, but he can't talk his thoughts back to me. He does make gibberish back to me (and who's not to say he's not talking back!), but since it doesn't make sense to me I just agree and get to move on w/o much of a fight! But he's also at a heart stopping age for my husband and I. He gets into everything now. And I do mean EVERYTHING! If he sees it then he wants to see it! He wants to touch it and touch it and touch it if you get my drift! He can climb onto a chair and get things. He can reach up higher than before and grab things. He takes what he wants and does what he wants w/o fear.

And as great as an explorer that he is, he is his own boss and does not understand that some things will harm him. He doesn't like hearing no or having danger forbidden from his experiencing. And so he sits or lies down on the floor and throws the ever so waited for tantrum!

Here's the thing w/ tantrums. You can ignore them, however that doesn't guarantee a stop. You can feed into them and it doesn't make it worse. But the hardest part about them is when they happen you instantly have to figure out how to abate them b/c depending where you are or who's around when they occur, the evil eye gets thrown at you. Yes, that evil eye that my husband and I threw to other parents when we were w/o child. That evil out that said all in itself, "how horrible is your kid?!". And when you see that look, it makes you mad, it makes you feel like you've lost control. And worst of all, it makes you realize that you have "that kid". Even tho everyone has "that kid" at some time, when that kid is your's for the moment, you want to hide. You want to go away and hope that you never see those people again b/c of course their child is perfect and your's is not... WRONG!!!!!!! But all the same, you wish that your child will stop and that he will smile and laugh like it was staged and you go on merrily. Instead he cries, I flee or want to, and I seethe over the bad behaviour for about 30 seconds. And then I wipe away his tears, give him a kiss and a hug, and tell him that I love him til it happens again!

So for now the babe is sleeping. I'm going to go do that laundry that otherwise doesn't do itself, and tomorrow we'll get something else accomplished!