The terrible twos

I know why they call it the terrible twos!!! I'm just going to say it. I never knew the true meaning of annoying or frustrating until I had a two year old. And (hopefully) like most parents of toddlers, I wonder if I'm a terrible parent or have a problem child. I have way too many "did that just happen?" moments. Like when Avery woke up grumpy from a nap throwing a fit for "pink ice cream". He must have a had a dream about it because ... . So Michael and I literally ransacked the kitchen looking for pink food coloring to dye our vanilla ice cream. All the while holding a screaming child. We get the ice cream made (brilliant) only to have him scream at us that he didn't want that pink ice cream. I'm sure it didn't match that dream image. Or how he screams at his friends and hits and pushes them and can easily go to time out ten times within an hour's visit. Or how he begs for soda at a drive through so we make an additional order once reaching the window and hand it to him and he yells "I don't want that soda!" Let's talk about the time he asked for a blue sucker at the bank drive through and when given a green one through it at me. Sometimes he'll walk into the room while Quincy's sleeping and yell in her face or jump on her right after I've worked so hard to get her to sleep. Of course she wakes up and he happily says, "Baby's awake now!" I don't even want to start on the night time antics. Coming to our room in the middle of the night trying to climb on me and stick his hand down my shirt. Screaming and kicking and of course waking Quincy. That's just the tip of the nightly iceburg. Then there's the antics when he gets in trouble. "NNNNNNNO! YOU GO TO TIMEOUT!" I love that little boy with all my heart and ALL my energy. We're doing our best to figure out this crazy changing jigsaw puzzle of a child. We're getting stricter and smarter, but he continues to rock our world. Hopefully I will read this to him in 14 years and it'll be such a distant memory and maybe he'll be such an angel that no one will believe it. At least he's got his charm and good looks to pull him through for now!