When Toddlers Strike Back

Oiye! Conner's new baby rebellion has struck with a vengeance, man. He has decided that he does not need to sleep anymore. He has ALWAYS been an excellent sleeper. All of a sudden, starting this week, he has spent the duration of his usual 3-hour nap screaming. In addition to the screaming, he seems to be showing his defiance by throwing everything out of his crib, including his all-important sleepy bear and his shorts and diaper. This has now been going on for four days. Usually, when he has these little sleeping hiccups, we are able to get him back in gear almost immediately by letting him cry it out. He realizes pretty quickly that we aren't going to budge and he needs to sleep. This time, the little booger is really wearing us out! On top of refusing to nap, he is waking up at the crack of dawn every day. Which is really rough, considering that we still have a newborn that wakes up every 3-4 hours through the night. Yawn!

This morning was the cherry on the sundae, though. He woke up at daylight, but we didn't go get him right away. When we went in there at 7am, he had thrown all of his stuff out of the crib again, but this time was different. Because this time there was poop in his diaper. Aaaand all over his bedsheets and back and feet (from standing in it while screaming).

Lord help me make it through this little phase in one piece!

Sick Baby

My little monkey came down with his first fever ever yesterday. :(




He spent the entire afternoon and evening laying on the couch in misery. And I sat there next to him...I don't think I want to watch anymore TV for a long time!

Sneaky little devil...

Last night when we were eating dinner, I told little C that he couldn't have any more bread and butter until he ate his main dish (stuffed bell peppers). So Raf and I proceeded to eat our dinner and chat when all of a sudden Raf noticed that he was putting food in his shirt and wondered what the heck he was doing that for. So I turned to watch him and he would look up at us and smile, then slowly bring his spoon to his mouth with food on it, open his mouth, and then quickly drop it into his shirt!!! He was trying to hide his food so he could get more bread! I couldn't believe he was so smart to be so sneaky! I wouldn't really know, but isn't he a little young to be so deceptive? He's not even 2 yet! We're toast.