I think I will go backwards, but fiddle with the time stamp thing to appear in order – very important!
I think, crucially, I need to say that BB is driving me round the bend. i think its partly because she didn’t get enough attention over Xmas, with Chris and I so busy, and now we are both knackered. But, if she tells me anything else is baggy poo poo I think I will just scream. today she has had playdough thrown away, and the didicar put in the cellar, after hours of provocation. She throws things, screams, hits us and SB and just shouts what are for her obscenities. I have tried so hard today to do wall to wall attention. Am imagining it will take a while of hard parental work to get back on track. She has always been ‘challenging’ to parent – primarily due to her desire to bully SB – but recently – aarrrgh. Of course, when she is good she is totally adorable. Mum think she prob just needs a higher level of stimulation. Deep breath.
So, today. BB and I started off with making her father christmas present reindeer fridge magnet. We then went on to painting the plaster of paris people we made yesterday [yep. will do yesterday!] Sb did some lego building with dad, and then some painting with one of her kits with me whilst BB did playdough. I then did a fair amount of legoing with SB, playing farm animals with BB. SB aso painted her suncatcher and read the whole of her childs bible. BB also did som katamino [a real hit] chalk pictures, apple tre farm reading.
We had a major tantrum from BB about some castle characters that arrived from ebay. I was goin to give them as a 12th night present, but she was wailing and wobbling over the unopened parcel she had seen, so I relented, and pointed it was to share with SB. After all the following wailing and screaming over the knights horses she did, it is lucky that all the castle stuff isn’t also in the cellar. I regained some equanimity by flickring and scrabulous, parking BB in front of NEMO. Chris and BB did more lego – it is now finished. BB and I made up, had the girls bathed and an early bedtime. Sb and I read about amelia earhart, inventing flying machines, and a bit about piston engines. We also practiced our Latin.
Chris and I should get an early night too so that we can be better parents tomorrow.
hugs for toddler terrorising, hope that getting back into “routine” will help settle her back down again.
I do think baggy poo poo is an excellenjt invective though, far better than Josie’s “trump head”.
I know its not funny when you’re dealing with it but I have to confess that baggy poo poo made me smile. I think this is a hard moment of the year and sometimes wish that Christmas was a bit shorter and sharper and we could just all get back to normal life.
it is funny as a saying. the thing is she is screeching it at top volume meant as an obscenity. I am glad it is making people smile. It would make me smile on someone elses blog. Unfortunately I think I must be missing some essential kit of parenthood with BB. She is out to ‘be’ naughty, so we are trying to not reinforce this with attention, bear in mind she is only 3, and mostly adorable, and also balance out the needs of SB. I need a lot more patience than i have as well. She is usually gorgeous with others, so I think this is purposeful willfulness rather than genuine wildness [does this make sense?]
She could be checking out boundaries with the people she knows love her and that she feels safe and secure with. So a compliment really . . .