This post is just me venting so I appoligize! The kids need to know how much they drive us crazy sometimes!
Insane is the only word that I have for how our lives have been lately. First off we have been having some sleeping issues with Max. Actually I think we have been having sleeping issues with Max for quite a while now, they are just getting worse. Max being in his own room worked amazingly well for the first few days and then it has been nothing but struggles. He wakes up constantly just moaning and groaning and like clock work he wakes up at 5:15 a.m. screaming bloody murder then won’t go back to sleep. He falls asleep at school and frankly is completely miserable to be around. He can’t focus, he can’t sit still or he zones out completely. I’ve tried several things that I had heard from “The Sleep Lady”, but have had no success. We even put him back in the other boys’ room. I am now going to make an individual appointment with the sleep lady. I should have months ago, but I keep thinking I can fix this on my own, but obviously that has not happened! I want to wake up to smiling, happy, well rested children again!
Also we need a word three times worse than Terrible Two’s! The boys are horrendous! They don’t listen to anything and I feel like I yell all day long. When the boys finally go to sleep at night I tell myself that tomorrow will be different and that I am not going to yell and I will use only positive reinforcement and not acknowledge the bad stuff. Well that lasts until about 6:15 a.m. when the boys are already fighting over who gets to poop in the big toilet and who gets to poop in the little toilet. After being nice and using “positive reinforcement” and repeating myself for 15 minutes I lose it and start yelling. What a great start to the very long and tiring day! Time outs don’t work, taking things away don’t work, and awarding the child that is behaving doesn’t work. They can’t even play by themselves for 5 minutes. I constantly have a child climbing, kicking, and knocking me over then when another one sees it they can’t be left out and have to do it to. I can’t get anything done when they are around so I have given up on a clean house and decide to just focus my attention on them. So what happens then, fighting over who holds the book, who sits with mom, who’s puzzle to do, what color crayon they want and this soon turns in to hitting, biting, throwing the object across the room or at each other and kicking and stomping our feet while screaming at the top of their lungs which then result in me yelling, AGAIN! So then I think I can re-charge during nap. Well think again Misti! IF they nap, by the time I get the last child to sleep, the first one wakes up. And when they wake up it is entirely too early for them to wake up because they have only been sleeping for maybe 30 minutes. So then it’s a repeat of the morning until the go to bed at night. And thank God that they eventually fall asleep at night because they look so cute and innocent then and your forgive them, that is until 5:15 the next morning!
