Behavior

Ok. Now I know you guys may think I'm crazy for posting this but I responded to a comment over the Super Nanny Community Board concerning a mother who asked if it was right to place her 18 month old daughter in "time out". Of course, every person who comes to the site "claims" to be doctors and psychologists etc..

I started putting my daughter in "time out" at around 14 months. She was WILD! Even though she disn't understand the whole concept of time out at that age it ALLOWED me the opportunity to get her used to the idea that if she does something wrong then she will get placed in "time out".

This lady turns up out of no where with her first post, claiming that what I am doing is wrong and that by placing my daughter into time out at such a young age, this will cause my daughter not to have the behavior again. YES, YOU HEARD ME RIGHT!! Ummm... where is the DOWN side to Time out! I mean I put her in there because I don't want her to have the behavior again! I personally think that this woman is off her rocker! AND I also think that if she spent any amount of time with Emma she would soon be visiting her doctor for stabalizers. I mean Emma is a wild little child and has been that way since she was 12 months old. The moment she started walking she began terrorizing the house.

Easter

Well, I finally got the Easter thing over with and not a moment too soon. My little Easter Emma got up at 6:00 AM wanting to play. When I really came to and opened one eye she was laying there with her diaper half way off and holding her toes the whole time saying "Nan Nan" and "Maaa". Emma doesn't call me Mommy often. It's always "MA". Go figure. I think she has heard me scream it so much at my own mother that she has picked it up. At any rate, We had a little Easter egg hunt and she whined for a while. Then decided that it was easier for her to hold the basket and she kindly allowed me to hunt and pick up her eggs. I clearly realized that I got the raw end of that deal. I had just gone out and hid the eggs and now I have to go back and pick them up. She was pretty cool about opening all fo the eggs and eating the jelly beans inside. I just loved it though. We all had a blast with family here. We ate and had food and fun. It's funny because poor Mark uysually has to hide whenever he's around Emma. She burst out in tears every time she sees him.

We started dying Easter eggs yesterday and Emma had a BLAST! I couldn't believe how she dove right in to it. She kept throwing the eggs into all the dye colors. We had eggs with 5 different colors on them. She was so adorable.

Sandbucket Kitty

This little girl is my world! We sat around today and watched her play with this stray cat that roams the neighborhood. She is an only child and sometimes I watch her when she's walking around the house, shuffling her little bare feet along the carpet. Her hands wondering along little "no-no" trinkets around the house, watching her cut her eyes at me to see if I'm watching her touch "the forbidden" items.
Today, I took this picture and as you can see her feet is off the ground! That cat brought Emma so much joy that she was jumping up and down. Okay, now that's from the picture view. Reality: you see that little yellow sand bucket? She was trying to beat the cat with it. The cat being so uncared for was happy to be beat with that little yellow pale as he was clearly getting attention of some sort. Needless to say I made her stop it, of course! But, the point is, well, there is no point. Just a kid having a blast with a kitty! :) God bless everyone!

Temper, Temper, Temper

I have finally decided to stop and smell the roses! Too bad I'm still getting stuck by the thorns. Emma and I have had a love~hate relationship these days with the terrible two's. She loves to throw the temper tantrums and I hate to see them come. Sometimes she even throws things at me when she's having them, especially if she's having one because i've told her "NO". I hope she grows out of this soon. I put her in time out sometimes and that just makes things worse. She doesn't respond to time out well!! THEN AGAIN HOW MANY CHILDREN AT 20 MONTHS OLD DO!
She's still my little princess though. No matter what she does she still comes out of it my little "sugar snap pea". Every time! Like when she spills the cheerios all over the couch and then stomps them into the carpet, opens her bottle and spills sticky juice onto the floor then tries to skate with her little bare feet through it. When she takes her diaper off and pees on the floor and then finds me and shows the puddle to me the whole time saying " oh no!". When she screams and cries all the way to the store and all the way through the store and then gets to the check out counter and laughs and grins with the cashier like she never screamed and cried at all. When she rips my work off the desk and scatters it all over the floor while i'm out of the room and then I come back in to find her sitting in the middle of a mountian of ribbons and bows. And finally, when she sticks her dirty little hand in my glass of tea just to retrieve an ice cube. YUK! After all of that, I catch her in a candid pose like this one and it makes me stop and think that all of those things as so minor. I will even miss the mischief when she grows out of it. Watching her twirl around the yard in her toy tierra just makes it all worth while! She' won't be this age long and pretty soon i'll be running after her for a bit of attention. I might as well let her have all the attention she can get from me now, even if it comes in tempers and twirling!

Growing UP

Today my daughter and I are leaving for our morning chores. All weekend has been very rainy and totally unappealing to the outdoors loving child. My 1 1/2 year old daughter is standing at the door patiently waiting with her little hat and purse. I open the door and she pokes her tiny hand out and says,

" NO Mommy! Cold and Rainy!"

I couldn't believe she said that. I had to laugh!

When did she grow up to say those things I wonder. Children say the craziest things!