Ohmmigod! I believe that Alex has officially entered the TERRIBLE TWOS!!!! He has become just so impossible lately! He will start crying and acting up over absolutely nothing and has the capacity to go on and on with it. Most of the time I don't understand what he wants and it seems that he's not too sure himself what he wants. Last week I made him some openfaced sandwiches with baby food meat which he ate, but he also stuck one onto his head so I had to give him a bath, the evening before he put ketchup in his hair so he had to take a bath. He absolutely hates having his hair washed!
The evening after when he was supposed to drink his milk he started fussing again and went on for about an hour with me telling him to hold the bottle himself, then he finally caught on and grabbed it and drank it all down. After he asked for more (which I didn't give him) he fell asleep. The next morning I kept complimenting him on having drank his bottle all by himself like a big boy, so he just did it without all the fussing. Finally!!! I know that he wants to do things by himself, and I do try to let him when possible, but he's got to stop throwing food on the floor for the fun of it.

I think he was really tired yesterday, I made him a sort of egg pie with vegetables (soup leftovers, actually) and put a cheese slice on top and cut it into small squares. He ate some of this with his hands (he wants to eat by himself and will turn over a spoon and drop everything on the floor and himself) and then stood up in his highchair and tried to eat like a dog! So I gave him his fork and he started beating it all over the place. In the end I gave up and took the plate and all away and offered him some jared fruit, which he wanted to eat, obviously, by himself. Since it was plum I wouldn't let him (it makes stains that are almost indeleble from most fabrics) so we both gave up and I gave him his bottle around 7pm instead of the usual 8:30 because he kept asking for it.

At least he's leaving the Christmas tree alone. For the moment, anyway. I put it up Sunday and its still standing.

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Susan

Sounds like he's testing. I am sorry, but I have no good news. It just keeps going. My neighbor says you have the terrible twos and Fing threes

I think a lot of the frustration with two year olds is they can't communicate as well. They know what they want, but they can't get you to understand.

Just enjoy the moments when he is good.

:hugs

I was going to say... if you think the 2s are bad... wait til he turns 3 LOL

But I guess its just a different kind of "terrible" LOL

I have to agree with Schannon and Renee. it only gets "worse" good luck, set the boundry's and stick with them

I wouls have to agree with all of you!! THe threes to me aer much worse than the twos were! Heck i would rather go back to the twos! But then again the threes have there good times as well! So I couldn't trade it.

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I agree with everybody. Schannon made a very good point - not being able to communicate his needs by two years old is often a reason for this kind of behaviour.
And yeah if you think twos are terrible wait for the threes... Tina is 4 and there are still days that I think that fours are no better
I think that at every age there are good and bad days, so yeah it's still horrible but different kind of horrible so you wont get bored
:gl

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Thanks for the support, my mom tells me the same thing. She also tells me that I used to love covering myself with tomato sauce and/or chocolate pudding (I've seen the pics of that). At least he hasn't started PT, so he can't easily play with his poop! (saw that one Catherine!) He'll likely get to it some time. One thing, at least, he says "thank you" and "you're welcome" all the time. Oh, he also calls anyone older than me and DH "granma" or "granpa" and anyone around our age "mamma" or "daddy", which is sometimes really funny because if its a 50 or so year old they might even be taken aback by being called "granma". I'm just so tired most of the time and Alex is always more or less sick, so he's even worse and sometimes I just lose my cool. He's also into slapping me or DH if we do or say something he doesn't like, I suppose I should stop paddling his bottom (hand pat and he has a diaper) since that doesn't work much, but even telling him that I don't like his behavior doesn't work either because if I ignor him because he's acting up he usually throws a toy at me or something.

Goodness, I've made him sound like a little monster! He's not really, just when he acts up once or twice a day, the rest of the time he's really sweet and gives us lots of hugs and kisses. Maybe I'm the one that needs to calm down.

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Susan

LOL!! I am embarresed you saw that!! Ever tried time out at the age?? It worked for elise until she was 2 1/2 and then we started spanking time out and many other things. If you want suggestions just ask us all I am sure you will get diverse opinions.

Catherine

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LOL that is reminding me one story... when i was 1 1/2 i "painted" the room wall with the pudding the other time i did it - with crayons. It's still making me laugh

And of course he's not a monster! He's just a kid

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LOL!! Yo uactually did that EVE?? HAHAHA that is funny! Of course I hope Elise never does that and don't you give her the idea to!!

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oh yes Catherine, i DID that! and i always thought it's funny LOL I like to think that i was showing off my creativity in that way...

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BTW, what's time out? How does it work? And does it actually WORK? Any other suggestions? He's been pretty good these last few days, I guess because he's feeling better, he had bronchitis, again, last week and I was in full PMS! Not that AF is much better!

I remember the crayon thing, my younger brothers did it regularly. I only broke things, I'm pretty accident-prone.

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Susan

Being that I have 2 two year olds I can relate w/ your frustration. My daughter is very demanding and my son is having biting issues(kicked out of 2 preschools). Anyhow...I promise you things do get better. I know everyone is saying 3 & 4 are worse, but I found them easier. Being that 2 year olds have a developing vocabulary they often get very frustrated. I do 2 minute time outs. Time out does help if you are consistant. Sometimes that is all they need...a time out to calm down. Lord knows I need time outs everyone in awhile.

Now wait until you get to the pre-teen years....then you'll see frustration...LOL

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HMM I don't know! I don't like the three's but like I said Elise has her good days and her bad just depends!

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